The War Diary of the 72nd Battalion, CEF January - May 1919 SCANNED and ATTACHED.TO MEDIA SUMMARY January 3, 1919- Battalion marched to Wavre. January 4, 1919- Battalion marched to Ohain, near Waterloo. March, 1919- Battalion won final Brigade transport competition, completing a string of unbroken successes. April I, 1919- Colours presented to Battalion by Sir A. W. Currie. April 8, 1919- 72nd marched past H. M. King Albert of Belgium. April 29, 1919- Battalion left Ohain for Le Havre. May 1, 1919- Battalion arrived at Le Havre. May 1, 1919- Instructions received for London parade of Dominion troops. Troops selected for march past left Le Havre. May 2, 1919- Arrival of draft at Southampton. Draft reached Bramshot same evening. May 3, 1919- Victorious march 'past of Dominion troops through London before His Majesty the King. May 4, 1919- 72nd Battalion sailed from Le Havre for Southampton, being the last Canadian Infantry Battalion to leave France. May 5, 1919- Battalion arrived once more at Bramshott, exactly three years after its arrival there from Canada. May 24, 1919- 72nd sent a detachment of 100, all ranks, under Capt. J. R. S. Lough, D.S.O., M.C., to Edinburgh to participate in a march past. June 6, 1919- 72nd Battalion embarked on H .M. Transport Olympic at Southampton on the last lap of their homeward journey. June 13, 1919- 72nd Battalion arrived at Halifax and entrained the same evening for Vancouver. June 20, 1919- Battalion arrived at Vancouver and was demobilized.