{"id":1757,"date":"2015-11-28T23:17:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T04:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strathroycaradoclions.ca\/?page_id=1757"},"modified":"2016-07-12T15:08:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T19:08:17","slug":"9th-canadian-infantry-battalion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rememberourvets.ca\/index.php\/9th-canadian-infantry-battalion\/","title":{"rendered":"9th Canadian Infantry Battalion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rememberourvets.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/09-9th-Infantry-Battalion-leaf.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1377\" src=\"https:\/\/rememberourvets.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/09-9th-Infantry-Battalion-leaf-179x300.png\" alt=\"09 9th Infantry Battalion leaf\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Sponsored by:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0<b>9th Battalion, CEF<\/b>, an infantry battalion of the\u00a0<b><a title=\"Canadian Expeditionary Force\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canadian_Expeditionary_Force\">Canadian Expeditionary Force<\/a><\/b>, was authorized on 10 August 1914 and embarked for Britain on 1 October 1914, where it was redesignated as the\u00a0<b>9th Reserve Infantry Battalion, CEF<\/b>, on 29 April 1915, to provide reinforcements for the Canadian Corps in the field. The battalion was formally disbanded on 15 September 1917.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The battalion recruited in Edmonton, Alberta and Ottawa, Ontario and was mobilized at Camp Valcartier, Quebec.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 9th Reserve Battalion formed part of the\u00a0<b>Canadian Training Depot<\/b>\u00a0at\u00a0<a title=\"Tidworth Camp\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tidworth_Camp\">Tidworth Camp<\/a>\u00a0on the Salisbury Plain.<\/p>\n<p>The 9th Battalion, CEF, had three Officers Commanding:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"first-child\">Lt.-Col. S.M. Rogers, 22 September 1914-4 May 1915 (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rememberourvets.ca\/index.php\/briscoe-ross-dickenson\/\">Lieutenant Ross Briscoe<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0was killed during\u00a0this time.)<\/li>\n<li>Lt.-Col. E.E.W Moore, 8 May 1915-25 April 1916<\/li>\n<li class=\"last-child\">Lt.-Col. E.B. Clegg, 25 April 1916-2 January 1917<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 9th Battalion was awarded the battle honour\u00a0<b>\u201cTHE GREAT WAR 1914-17.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 9th Battalion, CEF, was originally perpetuated by the\u00a0<b><a title=\"19th Alberta Dragoons\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/19th_Alberta_Dragoons\">19th Alberta Dragoons<\/a><\/b>\u00a0and is now perpetuated by the\u00a0<b><a title=\"South Alberta Light Horse\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Alberta_Light_Horse\">South Alberta Light Horse<\/a><\/b>.<span id=\"cite_ref-6\" class=\"reference\">\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">[Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/9th_Battalion,_CEF\">Wikipedia<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 1 August 1914 \u2013 three days before Britain declared war \u2013 the Governor-General of Canada offered help should war break out. On 7 August Lord Kitchener responded, saying that the Canadians might form a Division. An Expeditionary Force soon began to assemble at Valcartier (Quebec). The Division sailed on 3 October 1914 and arrived in England eleven days later. Training re-commenced on Salisbury Plain and the Division embarked for St Nazaire in early February 1915. It arrived in the Hazebrouck-Strazeele area on 15 February and thereafter the 1st Canadian Division fought in many of the major actions of the war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was prior to the 1st Division (including the 9th Canadian Infantry Battalion) transfer from Salisbury Plain, to St. Nazaire that\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rememberourvets.ca\/index.php\/briscoe-ross-dickenson\/\">Lieutenant Ross Briscoe<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0was killed in a training accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sponsored by: The\u00a09th Battalion, CEF, an infantry battalion of the\u00a0Canadian Expeditionary Force, was authorized on 10 August 1914 and embarked for Britain on 1 October 1914, where it was redesignated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-noright.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1757","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - 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