72nd Battalion officers on the SS Olympic troop ship June, 1919. Carrying more Canadian soldiers than any other troopship, Olympic was an important part of Canada's war effort. Named "Old Reliable" the Olympic had already made ten round trips from Liverpool to Halifax between March and December 1916, and was able to accommodate nearly 6000 troops. In May, 1919, as one of the few large liners to survive the war, Olympic was used to transport a large number of Canadian soldiers who, by March 1919, were tired of waiting in poor conditions in England. In her three-and-one-half years of ferrying troops across the Atlantic she had carried some 72,000 Canadians to war and brought at least 58,000 back home. Photo from album which possibly belonged to Lt Reginald Vigars Prenter (RVP), 72nd Bn.