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Draining Trenches. 22nd Infantry Battalion (French Canadian). [A researcher has provided information identifing the man on the left as Sapper William Henry Snow of the Canadian Engineers.]

22nd Battalion (French Canadian) in the Great War

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Van Doos Royal 22e Régiment The 22nd Battalion (French Canadian) also known as Royal 22e Régiment, or more familiarly, The Van Doos (English translation of vingt-deux). Organized in October 1914 under the command of Colonel Frédéric-Mondelet Gaudet,…