29th (BC) Battalion (Tobin's Tigers) Company photo The 29th Battalion (Vancouver), CEF was an infantry battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the Great War. Known as “Tobin’s 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. The 29th Battalion recruited in Vancouver and New Westminster, British Columbia and was mobilized at Vancouver.