28th Battalion (Northwest), CEF

The 28th Battalion (Northwest), CEF was an infantry battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the Great War.

The battalion was authorized on 7 November 1914 and embarked for Britain on 29 May 1915.

It disembarked in France on 18 September 1915, where it fought as part of the 6th Infantry Brigade, 2nd Canadian Division, in France and Flanders until the end of the war.

[1] The 28th Battalion originally recruited in Saskatoon, Regina, Moose Jaw and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan and Fort William and Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay), Ontario and was mobilized at Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Nicholson, CD, Queen's Printer, Ottawa, Ontario, 1962

28th Battalion marching past Sir Robert Borden . July, 1918
28th Battalion establishing a signal station at the Battle of Vimy Ridge