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Dated: June 3, 1919
Toronto World - 03 June 1917:
MAURETANIA SAILS WITH TORONTO MEN
Bringing the Seventh-Fifth and One Hundred and Second Battalions.
Liverpool, June 2. -- The Mauretania sailed today with four thousand Canadians, including divisional generals Burstall and MacDonnell and Quartermaster General Thacker.
The lord mayor gave an official farewell.
The Maurentania carried 170 officers and 3,671 men including the 11th brigade from Bramshott, comprising the 45th battalion for Hamilton, and Revelstoke, under Colonel Carey; 30 officers and 620 men of the 75th battalion, for Toronto under Colonel Harbottle1; 33 officers and 875 men of the 87th battalion for Montreal under Lieut. Col. Bickerdike2; 135 officers and 1,180 men of the 102nd battalion for Toronto and Vancouver; 27 officers and 80 men under Lieut. Col. Lister3. Generals Burstall4 and Macdonnell are aboard and Lady Macdonnell and daughter; Brigadier-generals Tuxford and Thackery, also Capt. B. S. Hutcheson5, V.C; 75 men of the medical corps, also the 40th divisional corps signallers. From Witley camp, there are six officers and 151 men. The balance consists of small parties of officers and men from Kinmel camp and London.
The Tunisian sailed for Montreal on Saturday carrying 300 soldiers and their dependants.
1Col Colin Clark Harbottle, 75th Battalion CEF.
2Lt.-Col. Robert Bickerdike, 87th Battalion CEF.
3Lt-Col. Frederick Lister, 102nd Battalion CEF.
4Major General Henry Edward Burstall, CFA.
5Capt. Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson, Victoria Cross.
Transcribed by: M. I. Pirie