Cap Badge - 8th (90th Winnipeg Rifles) Battalion, CEF (Canadian Expeditionary Force) The 8th Battalion (90th Winnipeg Rifles), CEF, was authorized on 10 August 1914. The 8th Battalion recruited in Brandon and Winnipeg, Manitoba and Kenora and Port Arthur, Ontario and was mobilized at Valcartier, Quebec. It embarked for Great Britain on 1 October 1914. It disembarked in France on 13 February 1915, where it fought as part of the 2nd Infantry Brigade, 1st Canadian Division in France and Flanders until the end of the war. The battalion was disbanded on 15 September 1920. The 8th Battalion was awarded the following battle honours: YPRES, 1915, '17 *YPRES, 1917, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, FESTUBERT, 1915, MOUNT SORREL, SOMME, 1916, Thiepval, Ancre Heights, ARRAS, 1917, '18, Vimy, 1917, Arleux HILL 70, Passchendaele, AMIENS, Scarpe 1918, Drocourt-Quéant, HINDENBURG LINE, Canal du Nord, PURSUIT TO MONS, FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1915-18.