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1998.141.022
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1998.141
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CANADA & CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
CANADA ET FORCE EXPÉDITIONNAIRE CANADIENNE
Company of the 29th Bn, CEF. at Hastings Park (PNE)
Infantry Company of the 29th "Tobin's Tigers" Battalion, CEF. The photo was probably posed at Hastings Park (now Pacific National Exhibition), Vancouver during WW I. May be the same photo as 1998.135.085.
The 29th Battalion (Vancouver), CEF was an infantry battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the Great War. Raised by ex-Seaforth Lieutenant-Colonel Tobin on 24 October 1914 in Vancouver, British Columbia, the 29th derived its manpower from the Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles and the Irish Fusiliers of Canada. Known as Tobins Tigers, the Battalion was authorized on 7 November 1914 and embarked for Britain on 20 May 1915. It disembarked in France on 17 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 30 August 1920.

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