91st Battalion Departure, 1916

Scope and Content: Shows members of the 91st Battalion, C.E.F., marching east on Talbot Street, St. Thomas to the Michigan Central Railway Station, June 25, 1916 to entrain enroute to Halifax, Nova Scotia and transport to England. This is probably A Company because the two young boys in the lower left foreground marching with the troops are identified as Ken Satchell and Clare Osborne, and Satchell's father Lance-Corporal Albert Satchell, 123380 was an NCO in A Company. View is looking northwest and includes businesses on the north side of Talbot Street, including R.H. Beattie bakery (515-517 Talbot Street), Philip R. Williams & Son funeral directors (519), Princess Theatre (525), Porter & Nelson jewelers (527), Roberts & Sandham, electricians (531).; Down the Street to Yesterday Zone 29 (Hiawatha to Mondamin)

Subject Access: First World War; 91st Battalion; Soldiers; Military; Departure of the 91st Battalion from St. Thomas, June 25, 1916