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Calgary's Battalion Park
The 51th Infantry Battalion. C.E.F
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51st (Edmonton battalion) was one of the first three infantry units
housed at Sarcee Camp when it opted officially in late May, 1915. One artillery
and two cavalry units, and the Canadian Army Medical, Service and
Ordinance Corporate (CAMSO) were also at the camp. Recruited from the Edmonton
area, the two cavalry units, and the
51st were in barracks at the Calgary Exhibition grounds from January until they moved into the new camp. They left for overseas duty on April 18, 1916, under Lieutenant-Colonel Hardwood. The unit served garrison Duty in England, until disbanded late in the 1917, sending its 1055 enlisted men to |
reinforce other units which
had
suffered heavy casualties. Its perpetuated by Loyal Edmonton regimen, which the 4th Battalion, PPCL1. Personal accounts of the horror of the war also preserve the writing style of this period. " Mud and weeping skies joined in the wrenched cacophony of bursting shells, screaming bullets shrapnel, and the tortuous cries of the wounded and dying. rain pelted over steel hats like water-balls sloshing against a ship's portholes. Men were crazed, some driven stark insane. Unmitigated hell reigned." Victor W. Wheeler, Signaller 50th Battalion, October 20, 1917. |
Battalion Parks location:
3015-Signal Hill Drive S.W. (top side)
Battalion Parks location:
Signal Hill Shopping Centre S.W. (bottom side, behind Staples)
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