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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF EVENTS. May 1, 1919 Battalion arrived at Le Havre. May 1, 1919 Instructions received for London parade of Dominion troops. Troops selected for inarch past left Le Havre. May 2, 1919 Arrival of draft at Southampton. Draft reached Bramshot same evening. May 3, 1919 Victorious march past of Dominion troops through Lon don before His Majesty the King. May 4, 1919 72nd Battalion sailed from Le Havre for Southampton, being the last Canadian Infantry Battalion to leave France. May 5, 1919 Battalion arrived once more at Bramshott, exactly three years after its arrival there from Canada. May 24, 1919 72nd sent a detachment of 100, all ranks, under Capt. J. R. S. Lough, D.S.O., M.C., to Edinburgh to participate in a march past. June 6, 1919 72nd Battalion embarked on H- M. Transport Olympic at Southampton on the last lap of their homeward journey. June 13, 1919 72nd Battalion arrived at Halifax and entrained the same evening for Vancouver. June 20, 1919 Battalion arrived at Vancouver and was demobilized. 209
SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS OF CANADA SUMMARY OF LOSSES AND CAPTURES, 72ND CANA DIAN INFANTRY BATTALION France and Belgium, Aug. 13th, 1916 Nov. llth 1918. KILLED LOSSES (Battle Casualties) WOUNDED TOTAL BATTLE CASUALTIES 2515 NUMBER OF OFFICERS WHO PASSED THROUGH THE BATTALION 149 OTHER RANKS . - 3642 TOTAL .. 3791 CAPTURES (Prisoners Captured) MATERIAL CAPTURED. HOWITZERS 3 FIELD GUNS 18 TRENCH MORTARS 23 MACHINE GUNS 211 ANTI-TANK GUNS . 5 210
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COPYRIGHT CANADA BY BERNARD McEVOY
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HISTORY OF THE 72nd CANADIAN INFANT
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I CONSIDER it FOREWORD a great hono
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PREFACE nnHIS VOLUME is an attempt
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CONTENTS CHAPTER I. FORMATION OF TH
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CONTENTS CHAPTER VIII. THE SUMMER O
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CONTENTS CHAPTER XVI. THE LAST FIGH
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Facing Page 6
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INTRODUCTION npHERE is much that is
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LIEUT. -COL. G. H. KIRKPATRICK, D.S
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INTRODUCTION of the Fifth was mobil
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MAJ.-OEN. R. G. EDWARDS LECKIE, C.M
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THE WAR STARTS. Empress of Britain,
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INSPECTION OF 72ND AT HASTINGS PARK
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