The 26th Battalion (New Brunswick) CEF, was an infantry battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I.
The 26th Battalion recruited throughout New Brunswick and was mobilized at Saint John, New Brunswick.
The battalion was authorized on 7 November 1914 and embarked for Britain on 15 June 1915. It disembarked in France on 16 September, where it fought as part of the 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade, 2nd Canadian Division in France and Flanders until the end of the war. The battalion was disbanded on 30 August 1920
The 26th Battalion was awarded the following battle honours:
Mount Sorrel
Somme 1916, 1918
Flers-Courcelette
Thiepval
Ancre Heights
Arras 1917, 1918
Vimy 1917
Arleux
Scarpe 1917, 1918
Hill 70
Ypres 1917
Passchendaele
Amiens
Hindenburg Line
Canal du Nord
Cambrai 1918
Pursuit to Mons
France and Flanders 1915, 1918
Source : 26th_Battalion_(New_Brunswick),_CEF
Formation Patche
Cap Badge
Baxter, Frank #69100
Clarke, Eugene #743088
Gibbons, Percy #742305
Gregory, Walter Henry #712644
King, George Andrew Morrison #710107
Maxwell, William McBay #405343
McNamara, Wesley Camp #742485
Sinnett, William Henry #817534
Thomson, Lewis Earl #648890
Widbur, Joseph Harry #818100
Wood, William Percy #454585