The 21st Battalion CEF

Forming up at Kingston


The Headquarters for the 21st Battalion was located in the Kingston Armouries (current address, 100 Montreal St., Kingston ON)		A survey map showing the Cereal Factory location where half of the Battalion was housed in late 1914, early 1915. It is on the west side of Gore St. about 150' south of Ontario St. (Current address, 20 Gore St., Kingston ON)

	Battalion November 21, 1914	Officers November 21, 1914

"A" Company November 21, 1914	"B" Company November 21, 1914	"C" Company November 21, 1914	"D" Company November 21, 1914

"E" Company November 21, 1914	"F" Company November 21, 1914	"G" Company November 21, 1914	"H" Company November 21, 1914

No 11 Platoon, "C" Company Soccer Team

21st Battalion Badge

NCOs
February 10, 1915

Quartermaster's Staff
at Kingston

Quartermaster's Sgts In England

In Kingston

The men from Renfew who volunteered
(photo from The Daily British Whig, November 10, 1914)

4 men with Ross Mk III rifles in full marching order winter 1914-15

Adds in the Britsh Whig in support of the 21st Battalion that appeared during February 1915.

A cartoon from the "Communiqué", the newsletter of the
21st Battalion Assc.
Depicts Sgt Jordan (later RSM) giving drill to the "awkward squad"

Departing for England

On board the SS Metagama

Training at Sandling Camp & Tolsford Hill

No 1 Coy

No 3 Coy

3 Coy

Lt Shepherd with
No 3 Coy,
No 1 Platoon

Officers

On Parade

Sigs Section

Sigs Sect

Trench
telephone stn.

Sandling Camp

Cutting the enemy's wire

Coffee Break

Training at Tolsford

Emma Gees

George Paudash
& W Hopkins

Art Redpath & the
pet crows

Lionel Parker (with x over head) and the Machine Gun Section's pet crows

Digging trenches

The cook-house staff
in 1915

The field kitchens
at Shorncliffe

A restored field kitchen

A poem for the brigade writen by
Pte A Morris
of the 20th Battalion

21st BN
Specialists

The Queen's Canadian Military Hospital
that served both the Shorncliffe and West Sandling Camps
The photo on the right shows the additions that were added to handle the troops

The Musketry School
at Hythe, near Sandling Camp

The Sgts and WOs at Sandling Camp
in 1915

Transportation at Sandling Camp

Division Transport

Staff Car

Transport Wagon

Miscellaneous Photos

3 Officers

Officers at lunch

The Officers as of
Spring - 1918

The Battalion Officers in 1919

5 Officers

Top row L-R Lt Audette MC, Lt Mempes MC, Lt Mowatt, Capt Christmas, Lt More MC, Lt Frazer MC,
3rd row L-R Lt Barber, Lt Sawell MC, Capt Ludlow MC, Lt Wiggins, Lt Jones, Capt McCusker MC, Capt Gillman,
2nd row L-R Capt Davidson MC, Maj Miller DSO MC, Maj Cooper Croix de Guerre, ALCol Elmitt DSO, Maj Pense DSO MC,
Maj Kidd MC, Lt Deane MC,
Bottom L-R Lt Govan, Lt HJ Wood, Lt Currie, Lt Widdifield, Lt Cockeram DSO, Lt Irwin MC

Note: Rank shown is rank at the time the photo was taken.
Several were promoted at a later date

Lt ST Crooks MC with his platoon

Pte Walter Clifford pictured using a shovel as a guitar. Peering over his shoulder is Sgt JT Dutton. The others with them in the trench are unknown.

L-R Bill Coleman, Dave Kemp, & Alex McLellan
in the Columbia Trench
New Year's Day 1918

The Signals Section
1917

Officer's Mess
in the field

The Sergeants

Some Sgts from Coburg

Cup presented to
Pte F Jocham MM
by city of
Woodstock ON

CO and Blanche

L-R Elmer Turner,
"Andy" Anderson

Blanche
the CO's horse

LCol Harry Pense
in a dugout near the front lines

The name & number of this piper are unknown. Can you identify him? Note the collar dogs, the rare C/21

6 Brighton Men

The Sugar Factory at Courcelette during and
after the battle in 1916
Photo on right courtesy of the Canadian War Museum

The Hospital at Etaples France where many men were taken for treatment after leaving the Casualty Clearing Stations.

21st Battalion snipers in Fall of 1916
In front with binoculars is Ted Lovell
Sitting L-R Scott Montgomery, James Northey, Peter Comego, John Barber, Johnson Paudash
Back row L-R Arthur Northey, Wilbert Webster, Lionel Jonas

Sniper Position in Courcelette Village
December 1917

On the left is spotter Pte L Jonas and on the right is sniper Cpl J Paudash. In the rear appears to be a happy German POW
This photo was staged for the press

Above are 2 views of a barb wire cutter that was attached to a Ross Rifle

On the left are 2 views of a trench periscope and case manufactured in Kingston Ontario. On the right is a photo of 2 different trench periscopes

"A" Company, most are unidentified, those known are:
in front with towel is Bert Swann, behind Bert, holding a cup is Victor Fraser, on his left is Teddy Day, with Jimmie Howarth on extreme right of that row.
Wes Cole is kneeling in the centre in rear of Swann, with A Baker second from the right kneeling.

Richardson Military Convalescent Home, Kingston ON, June 1917

On extreme left is Cpl G Lighthead and on his right is Pte S Johnson

Scouts Northey and Southey
Courtesy of Carol Cannon

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August 1918

A modern day view of the battlefield of August 26-27, 1918	A view of the 21st Battalion line from the German lines, August 26-27, 1918	The billets that the Battalion were sent to on August 29, 1918	More of the billets that the Battalion were sent to on August 29, 1918	An old school that was likely part of the Battalion billets on August 29, 1918
Special thank you to Gary Long for the above photos taken during his battlefield tour in 2011

Some of the Memorials and Cemeteries where the 21st Battalion is honoured both in Europe and Canada

Ridgewood Cemetery Ypres, Belgium	Tyne Cot Cemetery Ypres, Belgium	Niagara Cemetery Iwuy France	The Menin Gate Ypres, Belgium (Look through the arch on the left at the building straight ahead and note the Canadian Flag)

The Cenotaph at Bowmanville ON		The Memorial at Brighton ON		The Memorial at Colborne ON

The Memorial at Marmora ON		Bedford House Cemetery Belgium

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