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Infantry Regiments 1900-1919
Dawson Rifles
GGFG
Kootenay Rifles
PPCLI
Royal Canadian Regiment

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CEF Battalions 1914-1920

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Infantry Regiments 1920-2000
1st British Columbia Regiment
1st BC Regt (D. of Conn.'s Own)
Algonquin Regiment
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Argyll Light Infantry
Black Watch (RHR) of Canada
BC Regt (D. of Conn's Own Rifles)
Calgary Highlanders
Calgary Regiment
Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa
Canadian Airborne Regiment
Canadian Scottish Regiment
Canadian Fusiliers (C of L Regt)
Canadian Guards
Canadian Grenadier Guards
Cape Breton Highlanders
Carleton and York Regiment
Durham Regiment
Elgin Regiment
Essex Scottish
Essex & Kent Scottish
Fusiliers de Sherbrooke
Fusiliers Mont Royal
Fusiliers du St. Laurent
48th Highlanders of Canada
Gov Gen Foot Guards
Grey & Simcoe Foresters
Halifax Rifles
Hastings and Prince Edward Regt
Highland Fusiliers of Canada
Highland Light Infantry of Canada
Irish Fusiliers
Irish Fusiliers of Can (Vancouver R.)
Irish Regiment
Irish Regiment of Canada
Kent Regiment
King's Own Rifles of Canada
Lake Superior Regiment
Lincoln and Welland Regiment
Loyal Edmonton Regiment
Lorne Scots
Midland Regiment
Mississauga Regiment
New Brunswick Rangers
New Brunswick Scottish
North Nova Scotia Highlanders
North Shore (New Brunswick) Regt
North Waterloo Regiment
Oxford Rifles
Perth Regiment
Peterborough Rangers
Pictou Highlanders
PPCLI
Prince Albert and Battleford Voltrs
Princess Louise Fusiliers (MG)
Prince Rupert Regiment
Princess of Wales' Own Regiment
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada
Queen's Rangers (1st Am. Regt.)
Queen's York Rangers (1st Am. R.)
Régiment de la Chaudière
Régiment de Chateauguay
Régiment de Levis
Régiment de Maisonneuve
Régiment de Montmagmy
Régiment de Saguenay
Régiment de St. Hyacinthe
Régiment de Québec
Regina Rifle Regiment
Rocky Mountain Rangers
Royal 22e Regt
Royal Canadian Regiment
Royal Highlanders of Canada
Royal Highland Fusiliers of Canada
Royal Regiment of Canada
Royal Regina Rifles
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry
Royal Montreal Regiment
Royal New Brunswick Regiment
Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Royal Rifles of Canada
Royal Scots of Canada
Royal Winnipeg Rifles
Saskatoon Light Infantry
Scots Fusiliers of Canada
S, D and G Highlanders
Seaforth Highlanders of Canada
South Alberta Regiment
South New Brunswick Regiment
South Saskatchewan Regiment
Toronto Regiment
Toronto Scottish Regiment
Vancouver Regiment
Victoria Rifles of Canada
Voltigeurs de Quebec
Waterloo Regiment
Westminster Regiment
West Nova Scotia Regiment
West Toronto Regiment
Winnipeg Grenadiers
Winnipeg Light Infantry
York Rangers
Yukon Regiment

248th Battalion, CEF

The 248th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force was a unit raised for service in the First World War.

History

The Battalion was raised in Grey County, Ontario, with headquarters in Owen Sound.¹ Major J.H. Rorke, a graduate of the McGill University Officers' Training Corps, was promoted to lieutenant-colonel and commanded the battalion.²The unit had brass and bugle bands while in Canada. The battalion sailed to the United Kingdom on S.S. Olympic on 2 June 1917 with 13 officers and 259 men and disembarked on 9 June, and was absorbed by the 8th Canadian Reserve Battalion the same day.³

The unit received drafts from the 31st Grey Regiment and was perpetuated by The Grey Regiment after the Otter Commission reorganization. When The Grey Regiment and the Simcoe Foresters amalgamated in 1936, that unit continued the perpetuation.⁴

248th Battalion, CEF

Raised: August 1916 (GO 11/1917)
Strength: 13 officers, 259 other ranks
Service: Absorbed by the 8th Canadian Reserve Battalion on 9 June 1917.
Disbanded: Official disbandment 15 September 1917

Perpetuated by: The Grey Regiment/The Grey and Simcoe Foresters

Insignia

The cap badge illustrated above appears in the Babin catalogue as E-248.

Battle Honours

General Order No. 123 of 1929 granted a single battle honour to the 248th Battalion, CEF:

The Great War, 1917

Notes

Guide to Sources Relating to Units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Infantry Battalions (Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, ON, 2012) p.676

"Major Rorke to Command", The Gazette (Montreal), 23 Nov 1916, p.4

"Guide to Sources", Ibid

Love, David W. A Nation in Making: The Organization and Administration of the Canadian Military During the First World War (Service Publications Ltd., Ottawa, ON, 2012) ISBN 978-1-894581-72-1 Volume II, p.332 as well as "Guide to Sources", Ibid

Archival Holdings

The following holdings at Library and Archives Canada may be useful for further research on this unit:

Historical record
- RG 9 III-D-1, vol. 4705, folder 83, file 7
Correspondence re badges
- RG 9 III-D-1, vol. 4705, folder 83, file 8
Badges
- RG 24, vol. 1724, file HQ 683-502-1
Mobilization accounts
- RG 24, vol. 1724, file HQ 683-502-2
Inspection reports, clothing and equipment
- RG 24, vol. 1724, file HQ 683-502-3
Audit reports
- RG 24, vol. 1724, file HQ 683-502-4
Pay and paysheets
- RG 24, vol. 1724, file HQ 683-502-5
Appointment of officers
- RG 24, vol. 1394, file HQ 593-6-1-248
Organization
- RG 24, vol. 4396, file 2D. 34-7-180
Inspection
- RG 24, vol. 4396, file 2D. 34-7-180-2
MD6 file
- RG 24, vol. 4561, file 6D. 133-1-50
Inspection reports prior to leaving Canada
- RG 9 II-B-5, vol. 7
Nominal roll on embarkation from Canada, 1917
- RG 9 II-B-3, vol. 80
Argyll House file
- RG 9 III-B-1, vol. 3004, file U-92-33
Daily Orders
- RG 150, vol. 104
- Part 1 = 1916/12/07 - 1917/02/28
- Part 2 = 1917/03/31 - 1917/05/27