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86th Machine Gun Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 86th Machine Gun Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force? There are:-1 items tagged 86th Machine Gun Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with 86th Machine Gun Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force during the Great War 1914-1918. Collier John Albert. Pte. All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of 86th Machine Gun Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the Great War? Our Library contains many many diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. Looking for help with Family History Research?    Please see Family History FAQ's Please note: We are unable to provide individual research. Can you help? The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation. Announcements 19th Nov 2024     Please note we currently have a massive backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 264989 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations.   Pte. John Albert Collier 5th Brigade Machine Gun Coy. Jack Collier was born in London, England and emigrated to Canada in the care of the Salvation Army in 1910. He enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 18th of August 1915, embarking aboard the S.S. Adriatic with the 86th Machine Gun Battalion for Britain on 19th May 1916. He was initially stationed at the Canadian Machine Gun Depot, Risborough Barracks, in Shorncliffe, Kent and then later at Crowborough, Sussex. He was sent to the Canadian Machine Gun Pool at Camiers, France on 18 April 1917 and served with the 2nd Division's 5th Brigade Machine Gun Company for 4 and a half months. Jack was severely gassed near Cite St. Pierre, near Lens on 21st of August 1917 during the Battle of Hill 70. He was returned to Britain for treatment and convalescence before being transferred to the 11th Battalion, Canadian Engineers for the duration of the War, serving in France for an additional 20 months. Jack embarked for Canada from Liverpool on 8 August 1919 along with his English bride and their six-week old daughter. When WWII broke out, Jack guarded Canadian port and electrical facilities in the service of the Ontario Provincial Police and later enlisted in the 35th Company of The Veterans' Guard of Canada, escorting German P.O.W.s from Britain to Canada and serving as a guard at several P.O.W. camps in northern Ontario, Canada. David J. Forsyth Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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