On April 10, 1919 two news stories about the 18th Battalion were published on page three in the Border Cities Star. One story was about the past, told of a traitor in the 18th who “surrendered” to the Germans in July 1918 while the Battalion was stationed in the Telegraph Hill area in the Arras... Continue Reading →
Envy of Their Good Fortune
Several battalions of the C.E.F. were destined to be "reinforcing" battalions whose members trained in a battalion in Canada and then were used in reinforcing drafts to replenish other battalions. Since many of these battalions were many were locally/regionally raised with volunteers and then formed as a unit it must have been hard to be... Continue Reading →