176th Battalion (Niagara Rangers), CEF

The 176th (Niagara Rangers) Battalion, CEF, was a unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War.

Based in St. Catharines, Ontario, the unit began recruiting in January 1916 in Lincoln and Welland counties.

Their training ground and campsite was on Spring St., Niagara Falls, where Memorial School was built in 1921.

[1] The 176th (Niagara Rangers) Battalion, CEF, had one Officer Commanding: Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Sharpe.

Contained within scrolls were the words "Niagara Rangers", "Canada", "Overseas Battalion".