WW1: Sept 16, 1915

[Mark W. Tonner]

Originally posted by Vets Dottir
SCOTTISH Regiment you say? COOL!SO Archie was basically "transferred" from the 96th to the 27th Manitoba Regiment? Or just finished his "time" with the 96th and signed on new for another stint

No, Archie left the 96th Regiment (Canadian Militia) and joined the 27th Infantry Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force - a whole new kettle of fish, so to say. The Militia of Canada and the Canadian Expeditionary Force were two different things altogether.

Short explanation is, prior to the outbreak of the Great War, here in Canada, there was the Canadian Militia, at the outbreak of the War, in 1914, the Minister of the Militia, decided instead of mobilizing the Militia according to a standing mobilization plan that was in existence at that time, he created his own army of numbered battalions, having no relation whatsoever to the Regiments of the Canadian Militia, of the period.

Cheers