Who were the 28th Battalion?

The 28^th (North-west) Battalion was recruited in 1914 from the Manitoba / Saskatchewan area of Canada. My grandfather, Jack Ramsay, was one of them.

The battalion went overseas to Britain as part of the 'Second Contingent' in June of 1915. There it joined 6_^th Brigade, 2^nd Division of the Canadian Corps. In September of that year, they crossed the channel and were promptly sent to the front lines. The Battalion suffered its first major casualties within the month when "D" company (my Grandfather's) was nearly wiped out from a mine explosion near Kemmel. This, and later battles, taught the men of the battalion its craft, and winnowed the ranks of the original recruits.

Pushing to the end, the last soldier killed on the Western Front was Private G. Price of the 28^th, shot by a sniper while on patrol at 10:58AM Nov. 11, 1918, two minutes before the armistice.

For a detailed account of the last hours of the war, go to The Last Hours, The Last Man.

News

November 2005

Did your granddad fight in Passchendaele?

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The Passchendaele Archives
A project of the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917

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The Passchendaele Archives
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