The 153rd Battalion, CEF was a unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force

Canadian Expeditionary Force

The Canadian Expeditionary Force was the designation of the field force created by Canada for service overseas in the First World War. Units of the C.E.F. were divided into field formation in France, where they were organized first into separate divisions and later joined together into a single...

 during the First World War

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. Based in Guelph

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, Ontario

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, the unit began recruiting in late 1915 in Wellington County. After sailing to England in April 1917, the battalion was absorbed into the 4th and 25th Reserve Battalions on May 7, 1917. The 153rd (Wellington) Battalion, CEF had one Officer Commanding: Lieut-Col. R. T. Pritchard. He died near his hometown of Fergus

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in 1955 and is interred at Belsyde Cemetery.