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Canadian Expeditionary
Force Study Group
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| Component: |
173rd Infantry Battalion |
| Active Dates: |
not specified |
| Theatre of Operations: |
Did not serve as an active unit
in France but provided reinforcements to many front line units.
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| Major Battles /
Battle Honours: |
Mount Sorrel; Somme 1916, 1918;
Flers-Courcelette; Thiepval; Ancre Heights; Arras 1917, 1918;
Vimy 1917; Hill 70; Ypres 1917; Passchendaele; Amiens; Scarpe
1918; Drocourt-Quéant; Hindenburg Line; Canal du Nord; Cambrai
1918; Pursuit to Mons.
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| 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 173rd Infantry Battalion
"Canadian Highlanders" from Hamilton Ontario was
absorbed by the 2nd Reserve Battalion and that it provided
direct reinforcements to the 58th, 75th and 116th
Battalions. In addition to those direct reinforcements it
provided men to other units in the field. Love reports that the
2nd Reserve Battalion was absorbed by the 3rd Reserve Battalion,
but prior to that absorption it did train the 120th, 173rd,
204th, 208th and 215th Battalions.
Meek does not provide any additional details.
Nicholson does not report on the 173rd
Battalion.
From Library and
Archives Canada: 173rd
Infantry Battalion (although none of these documents are
available on-line).
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Sub-Components:
War Diary Entries:
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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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| Meek, John F. 1971. "Over the Top!
The Canadian Infantry in the First World War. Privately Published,
Orangeville Ontario Canada. |
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