"102nd Battalion Memorial near Albert." France 102nd (British Columbia) Battalion Memorial on Vimy Ridge" July 1918 Official Caption: 102nd Battalion Memorial, July, 1918. Memorial lists the names and service numbers of enlisted men, Non-commissioned officers, and officers of the 102nd Canadian Infantry Battalion (Northern British Columbia) who perished during the assault on Vimy Ridge, 9 April, 1917. The writing on the memorial reads "Erected in Memory of OFFICERS, N.C.O.s & MEN 102nd CANADIAN INFANTRY Who fell during the assault & Capture of Vimy Ridge, April 9th, 1917." Two sides of the memorial list officers and men killed. From "BC to Baisieux, History of the 102nd Canadian Infantry Battalion CEF, pages 57, 58: "This concludes the story of the series of operations conducted by the 102nd Bn. in the Vimy Sector; though we were constantly in the same area, subsequent oerations are referred to under other designations. For over five months and a half we had fought along the Ridge, and now on its crest stand two monuments closely inscribed with names; one is erected to the memory of those brave men who laid down their lives during the long months of preparation or during the three tours which succeeded the great victory of April 9th, 1917: the other to those who fell on the day of the great victory itself. On one or other are inscribed the names of all who made the Supreme Sacrifice from the date of our entry into the Vimy Sector to the conclusion of the battle of the Second Triangle." The 102nd Battalion, CEF, (initially the 102nd Battalion (Northern British Columbia), after August, 1917, the 102nd Battalion (Central Ontario), CEF) was an infantry battalion of the Great War Canadian Expeditionary Force. The 102nd Battalion was authorized on 22 December 1915 and embarked for Britain on 18 June 1916. It disembarked in France on 12 August 1916, where it fought as part of the 11th Infantry Brigade, 4th Canadian Division in France and Flanders until the end of the war. The battalion disbanded on 30 August 1920. The 102nd Battalion recruited in Northern British Columbia and was mobilized at Comox, on Vancouver Island.