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Canadian Expeditionary
Force Study Group
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| Component: |
Army Troops / Corps Troops |
| Contributors: |
enter names of CEFSG members
participating |
| Location of War Diaries: |
 | Library and Archives Canada (WD Link) |
| CEFSG War Diary Transcription
(in progress = IP) |
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Background:
The "Army Troops" or "Corps
Troops" are those units that are not contained within a
specific Division, as previously described. These units
contained a mixture of units involved in battle and those
involved in support operations. These units could be found
at the front line, behind the front line, or further removed in
the rear areas (i.e. hospitals). Love describes these in
terms of the "Three Echelons":
| First Echelon: all components available to join
units in battle (cavalry, artillery, machine gun, tanks,
etc.);
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| Second Echelon: units providing support to
the battle units such as transport, supply and equipment, so
not actively involved in battle (transport, stores,
equipment, etc.);
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| Third Echelon: units and transport more or less
permanently in the rear of the fighting lines (base camps,
depots, hospitals, etc.).
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Please note that I have no assurance that all of the units
have been accounted for or they have been assigned to the
correct designation - as this is a "work in progress"!
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Sub-Components:
These support units were identified from the War
Diaries Listings of Library and Archives Canada but not listed
elsewhere as "units in the field". For the
moment, they are all grouped here as "miscellaneous support units":
(alphabetical)
Primary References:
| Nicholson, G. W. L. 1962. Official
History of the Canadian Army in the First World War:
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919. Queens Printer
and Controller of Stationary, Ottawa, Canada. (Appendix B -
Canadian Units in France and Belgium, November 1918;
Appendix D - CEF Infantry Battalions)
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| Love, D. W. 1999. "A Call to
Arms" The Organization and Administration of Canada's
Military in World War One. Bunker to Bunker Books,
Winnipeg & Calgary, Canada. (Chapter 1 - Elements of
Military Organization)
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| Stewart, C. H. 1970.
"Overseas" The Lineages and Insignia of the
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914 -1919. Little &
Stewart, Mission Press, Toronto, Canada. |
Secondary References:
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