Canadian Infantry

[nicburch]

Whereabouts please...10th Battalion(Alberta Regt.) 22/5/15 and 46th Battalion (Saskatchewan Regt.) 21/8/18.

Nick

[CROONAERT]

Whereabouts please...10th Battalion(Alberta Regt.) 22/5/15  and 46th Battalion (Saskatchewan Regt.) 21/8/18. 

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Nick.

If you CLICK HERE, you'll probably not only be able to find out exactly where they were, but also be able to download (free) their War-Diaries.

Dave.

[CROONAERT]

Whoops - wrong one!

Try clicking HERE instead.

(I'll keep the previous post as that's a very useful link too.)

Dave.

[marc leroux]

On 21-22 May 1915 the 10th was attacking K5 (Stutzpunct) outside Festubert, going up against the 56th and 57th German Infantry Regiments. They had limited artillery success prior to the attack on the 21st, and concequently sufferred a lot of casulties.

The chapter in Dancocks Regimental history of the 10th dealing with this is titled "The Gates of Hell".

marc

[Borden Battery]

46th Battalion, CEF on the Saskatchewan Dragoons Sept 2005

The 46th Battalion is perpetuated by the Saskatchewan Dragoons, and the web site of the latter provides a detailed description of the Battle Honours for the 46th, which includes Mount Sorrel, The Somme, Ancre Heights, Vimy, Arras, Hill 70, Ypres 1917, Passchendaele, Amiens, Drocourt-Queant, Canal du Nord and Valenciennes.

[Recommended by Brett Payne]

http://www.saskd.ca/skd-hon.htm

[Borden Battery]

There is no specific mention of the 46th Battalion on the date in question, however, here is an excerpt from the Official History which gives you in what context they were operating. Detailed information can be obtained from the online war diaries.

There is no doubt that Rawlinson was considerably influenced by representations made to him by General Currie, upon whose forces the burden of a major share of a renewed offensive must fall. At a meeting on the morning of 14 August the Army Commander showed Haig a letter (accompanied by air photographs taken the previous day of the German positions) in which Currie set forth the arguments against renewing an operation which would "cost a great many casualties" without obtaining adequate results. He suggested that if the attack were found to be absolutely necessary it should be postponed in order to allow time to "recover the element of surprise." He recommended that an alternative, and better, course would be to withdraw the Canadian Corps from the line, and after resting it for a few days employ it on the Arras front in a surprise attack in the direction of Bapaume. An advance in this sector coupled with an attack by the French from their present line, might well force the enemy to abandon his positions west of the Somme without the necessity of a frontal assault.

Source: Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War - Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919, p 397