The 4th Infantry Brigade (Canada) was a First World War Canadian Army brigade. It was part of the 2nd Canadian Division

2nd Canadian Division

The 2nd Canadian Division was an infantry formation that saw service in the First World War. A 2nd Canadian Infantry Division was raised for the Second World War.-History:...

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World War I History

The formation of the 2nd Canadian Division began in May 1915 in Britain

United Kingdom

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 following the arrival of a large contingent of soldiers from Canada

Canada

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. The Division remained in Great Britain only a short time before embarking for France

France

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 in September 1915. Under the command of Major-General R.E.W. Turner, its members spent a long and bitterly cold winter in a Belgian

Belgium

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 section of the front between Ploegsteert Wood

Ploegsteert

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 and Saint-Eloi

Saint-Éloi

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, south of Ypres

Ypres

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. Infantry units as well as artillery units of the 2nd Canadian Division served in both France and Flanders

Flanders

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 until Armistice Day

Armistice Day

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Composition

• 18th (Western Ontario) Battalion Canadian Infantry. October 1, 1914 - November 11, 1918;
• 19th (Central Ontario) Battalion Canadian Infantry
  19th (Central Ontario) Battalion, CEF
  -History:The 19th Battalion, CEF, or Canadian Expeditionary Force, was originally raised at Exhibition Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 6 November 1914....
  
  . October 19, 1914 - November 11, 1918;
• 20th (Central Ontario) Battalion Canadian Infantry
  20th Battalion, CEF
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  . October 1914 - November 11, 1918;
• 21st (Eastern Ontario) Battalion Canadian Infantry. October 19, 1914 - November 11, 1918.

1916

• Battle of Flers-Courcelette
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• Battle of Thiepval
• Battle of Le Transloy
  Battle of Le Transloy
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• Battle of the Ancre Heights
  Battle of the Ancre Heights
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1917

• Vimy Ridge
  Battle of Vimy Ridge
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• Hill 70
• Passchendaele

1918

• First Battle of the Somme (1918)
• Battle of Amiens
• Second Battle of the Somme (1918)
  Second Battle of the Somme (1918)
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• Drocourt-Quéant
  Drocourt-Quéant
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• Battle of the Hindenburg Line
  Battle of the Hindenburg Line
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• Canal du Nord
  Battle of the Canal du Nord
  The Battle of Canal du Nord was part of a general Allied offensive against German positions on the Western Front during the Hundred Days Offensive of World War I. The battle took place in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, along an incomplete portion of the Canal du Nord and on the outskirts...
  
  
• Pursuit to Mons