27th (Winnipeg) Battalion, CEF Cap Badge The 27th Battalion (City of Winnipeg), CEF was authorized on 7 November 1914. The 27th Battalion recruited in Brandon, Portage la Prairie and Winnipeg, Manitoba and Kenora and Rainy River, Ontario and was mobilized at Winnipeg. It embarked for Great Britain on 17 May 1915. It disembarked in France on 18 September 1915, where it fought as part of the 6th Infantry Brigade, 2nd Canadian Division in France and Flanders until the end of the war. The battalion was disbanded on 15 September 1920. The 27th Battalion was awarded the following battle honours: MOUNT SORREL; SOMME, 1916, ’18; Flers-Courcelette; Thiepval; Ancre Heights; ARRAS, 1917, '18; Vimy, 1917; Arleux; Scarpe, 1917, '18; HILL 70; Ypres 1917; Passchendaele; AMIENS; HINDENBURG LINE Drocourt-Quéant; Canal du Nord; Cambrai, 1918; PURSUIT TO MONS and FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1915-18. 27th Battalion (City of Winnipeg), CEF, is perpetuated by The Royal Winnipeg Rifles.