Tag: 29th Battalion

  • 29th (Vancouver) Battalion in the Great War

    29th (Vancouver) Battalion in the Great War

    Tobin’s Tigers 29th Vancouver Battalion organized in October 1914 under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Seymour Tobin. Also known as “Tobin’s Tigers”. Lieutenant-Colonel H S Tobin Tobin a veteran of the R.N.W.M.P., the 72nd Regiment and the South African War (Lord Strathcona’s Horse). The 29th Vancouver Battalion mobilized at Vancouver, and also recruited in Vancouver,…