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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

257th Battalion, CEF

The 257th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force was a unit raised for service in the First World War.

History

The 257th Canadian Infantry Battalion mobilized in Saint John, New Brunswick and was organized in December 1916 under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel L.T. Martin. The battalion recruited in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick.¹

The unit embarked for the United Kingdom at Halifax, Nova Scotia on 17 February 1917 aboard S.S. Missanabie and disembarked on 26 February 1917 with a strength of 29 officers and 902 other ranks. Two weeks later the unit was redesignated the 7th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops.²

257th Battalion, CEF

Authorized: 1 February 1917 (G.O. 11/1917)
Service: In France as 7th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops
Strength: 29 officers, 902 other ranks
Redesignated: 8 March 1917
Perpetuated by: Not perpetuated

Battle Honours

No battle honours were awarded to the 257th Battalion, CEF.

Notes

Stewart, p.108 as well as Guide to Sources, p. 684
Guide to Sources, Ibid, p.684

References

Love, David W. A Call to Arms: The Organization and Administration of Canada's Military in World War One (Bunker to Bunker Books, Calgary, AB, 1999) ISBN 1894255-03-8
Stewart, Charles H. Overseas: The Lineages and Insignia of the Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919 (Little & Stewart, Toronto, ON, 1970)
Guide to Sources Relating to Units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Infantry Battalions (Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, ON, 2012)

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 23
Correspondence re badges
- RG 9 III-D-1, vol. 4705, folder 83, file 24
Badges
- RG 24, vol. 1718, file HQ 683-493-1
Clothing and equipment
- RG 24, vol. 1718, file HQ 683-493-2
Mobilization accounts
- RG 24, vol. 1718, file HQ 683-493-3
Audit reports
- RG 24, vol. 1719, file HQ 683-493-4
Pay and paysheets
- RG 24, vol. 1719, file HQ 683-493-5
Appointment of officers
- RG 24, vol. 1294, file HQ 593-6-1-257
Organization
- RG 24, vol. 4397, file HQ 2D. 34-7-190
MD3 file
- RG 24, vol. 4453, file 3D. 26-257-1
MD4 file
- RG 24, vol. 4487, file 4D. 47-257-1
Organization
- RG 24, vol. 4516, file 5D. 17-19-1
MD6 file
- RG 24, vol. 4558, file 6D. 132-15-1
Organization
- RG 24, vol. 4576, file 7D. 3-29-1
Nominal rolls, 1 March - 20 April 1917
- RG 9 III-C-7, vol. 4462, folder 5, file 2
New railway construction battn to be raised by L.T. Martin
- RG 24, vol. 1471, file HQ 600-10-44
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