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Canadian Expeditionary
Force Study Group
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| Component: |
43rd Battalion |
| Theatre of Operations: |
France and Flanders |
| Major Battles Battle Honours: |
Ypres 1915; Festubert 1915;
MOUNT SORREL; SOMME 1916; Flers-Courcelette; ANCRE HEIGHTS;
ARRAS 1917, 1918; VIMY 1917; HILL 70; PASSCHENDAELE; AMIENS,
Scarpe 1918; Drocourt-Quéant; Hindenburg Line; CANAL DU NORD;
Cambrai 1918; Pursuit to Mons; France and Flanders 1915-1918. |
| Location of War Diaries: |
 | Library and Archives Canada (WD Link) |
| CEFSG War Diary Transcription
(in progress = IP) |
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Background:
| Stewart reports that the 43rd
Battalion served in France and Flanders with the 9th Infantry
Brigade of the 3rd Canadian Division from February 20, 1916
until the armistice.
Nicholson reports on the XX
Infantry Battalion on the following pages (see the Matrix
Nicholson Transcriptions):
| Somme 172 |
| Bellevue Spur 318 |
| Others 134, 397, 399, 430, 449, 453 |
From
Library and Archives Canada:
The 43rd Canadian Infantry Battalion was organized in December 1914 under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel R.M. Thomson under authorization published in General Order 86 of 1 July 1915. The battalion mobilized and recruited in Winnipeg.
The battalion embarked at Montreal on 1 June 1915 aboard GRAMPIAN, disembarking in England on 9 June 1915. Its strength was 40 officers and 998 other ranks. The battalion arrived in France on 20 February 1916, becoming part of the 3rd Canadian Division, 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade. It was later reinforced by the 14th Canadian Reserve Battalion. It returned to England on 11 February 1919, disembarked in Canada on 20 March 1919, was demobilized on 24 March 1919, and was disbanded by General Order 149 of 15 September 1920.
The battalion colours were presented by Sir Arthur Currie early in April 1919 and deposited in St. Stephen's Church, Winnipeg, on 20 April 1919. The battalion supported both pipe and brass bands.
The 43rd Canadian Infantry Battalion was perpetuated by The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada.
Please refer to the Internet
sites noted below for details on the Cameron
Highlanders Regiments and the formation of the 43rd Battalion.
For a description of the role that the 43rd Battalion played
in the "Canadian Independent Force" on and about
August 8, 1918. Please refer to Livesay's text
"Canada's Hundred Days", freely available as an Archive
Download, as noted in the references that follow. In
particular, a description of the Independent Force is provided
on page 35, with details described on the actions in Chapters V
and VI. |
Sub-Components:
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.
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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.
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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.
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| Livesay, J. F. B. 1919. Canada's Hundred
Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11,
1918. Thomas Allen, Toronto. (Available
on the Internet as an Archive Download) |
Secondary References:
Internet References:
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