113th Battalion (Lethbridge Highlanders), CEF

The 113th Battalion was authorized on 22 December 1915 as part of a recruiting drive in which men from the same region could enlist and serve together.

The rank-and-file soldiers were not issued Highland kit, but the battalion did raise three pipes and drums bands who were.

[1] In late May 1916, the battalion moved to Sarcee Camp outside Calgary for further training that lasted until September.

The trip across the Atlantic took ten days and upon arriving in England the battalion was taken to a holding camp at Sandling near Shorncliffe.

It was at Sandling that Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Westhead Pryce-Jones, the commanding officer, learned that the 113th would be broken up for replacements and would not see action as a unit after all.

Signal Hill, Calgary, with painted stones placed by soldiers from Lethbridge (113) who trained in Calgary in early 1916 before embarking for Europe in September 1916
113th Battalion portrait, Lethbridge exhibition grounds, Lethbridge AB
Walter James of Gleichen, Alberta , in his uniform; he served with the 113th Battalion (Lethbridge Highlanders.) James survived the war. [ 2 ]