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Subject: [WW1] CEF WW1,which battalion????
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 01:57:28 -0800


Hello All,

I am desperately trying to find info on my gramps- Joseph Marriott
Love's Battalion/Brigade or regiment, and would greatly appreciate some help
finding this out.
This is what I know from his WW1 record that I obtained from the National
archives of Canada.
2 years prior service 19th company CASC
enlisted - 9 Apr 1915
embarked overseas 11 May 1915 with the Remount Depot
embarked Southampton 4 June 1915
1 July 1915 appt' 1st class fitter Rouen
31 July 1915 Can. Section 3rd Echelon
22 Sept 1915 admt' #5 stat Hos. A section Dieppe.
1 Dec 1915 at Roublais?
10 Apr 1916 tranf' to ICVH Calvary Veterinary Hospital
6 July 1916 admt' #39 gen Hos Havre
14 July 1916 trans to 1st Can. For Corp.
15 sept 1917 in field at Cressy Gressy? forest
18 Aug 1917 attached to DD of F Rouen
29 Jan 1918 #3 Aus Gen Hos Abbeville
23 My 1918 Unit now known as No 1 Coy Can Forestry Corp.
6 May 1919 posted to Can For 3rd echelon Corps depot Sunningdale
31 July 1919 embarked Liverpool on the "Scandinavian"

Can anyone tell me what his unit may have been called or numbered? I've
poured over books until I'm blind and can't find anything mentioned at all.
Did each unit in the war have calvary/foresters attached to it? sign me-
still trying to learn- Cheers Teena


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