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Component: Moved to Canadian Railway Troops
Active Dates:
Contributors: Broznitsky; Laughton
Theatre of Operations:
Major Battles:
Location of War Diaries:
Library and Archives Canada (WD Link)
CEFSG War Diary Transcription (in progress = IP)

Background:

Moved to Canadian Railway Troops.

 

Sub-Components:

 
127th Battalion (12th Regiment York Rangers), Mobilized at Toronto ON, 2nd Btn. C. Railway Troops
228th Battalion (Northern Fusiliers), Mobilized at Nipissing and North Bay ON, 6th Battalion Canadian Railway Troops
256th Battalion (), Mobilized at Toronto ON, 10th Railway Construction Battalion

Units amalgamated to form the 8th Railway Troops:

211th Battalion 8th Bn CRT
218th Battalion 8th Bn CRT

From the Summary Table, these battalions were moved to the CRT:

239th Battalion 3rd Bn CRT
257th Battalion 7th Bn CRT

War Diary Entries:

GrandsonMichael War Diary Post with Canadian Engineers: March 27, 2006

 

Canadian Railway

Canadian Railway Troops (France)
1917/04/01-1919/05/17

Canadian Railway Troops (England)
1918/01/01-1918/12/31

1st Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops
1916/10/26-1918/12/30

2nd Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops
1917/01/11-1918/02/28
1918/03/01-1918/12/31

3rd Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops
1917/03/07-1918/12/31

4th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops
1917/01/23-1918/04/30 No Entries!
1918/05/01-1918/12/31 No Entries!

5th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops
1917/01/29-1919/01/19

6th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops
1917/03/31-1919/01/31

7th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops
1917/03/27-1919/01/31

8th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops
1917/02/01-1917/12/31
1918/01/01-1919/01/31

9th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops
1917/03/01-1918/12/31

10th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops
1917/05/31-1919/01/31

11th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops
1917/02/08-1919/01/02

12th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops
1917/02/08-1919/02/28

13th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops
1918/03/13-1919/02/02

13th Canadian Light Railway Operating Company
1917/06/09-1919/02/28 No Entries!

1st Bridging Company, Canadian Railway Troops
1918/08/03-1918/08/31

Canadian Railway Troops Depot
1917/03/01-1919/05/31

Canadian Overseas Railway Construction Corps Reserve
1915/10/01-1918/02/28

7th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops - Military Railways, Belgium - Map
1917/04 No Entries!

Overseas Railway Construction Corps
1915/08/25-1918/12/31

58th Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company
1916/07/27-1919/04/19 No Entries!

Canadian Light Railway Operating Company

13th Canadian Light Railway Operating Company
1917/06/09-1919/02/28 No Entries!

Progress Charts Canadian Railway Troops
1918/10/03-1919/01/19 No Entries!

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