50th Infantry Battalion (CEF)

The 50th Battalion CEF was mobilized in Calgary, Alberta in 1914 after the outbreak of the First World War. They fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and the Capture of Vimy Ridge in April 1917. They also fought in the battle of Passchendaele in the Fall of 1917.

They served during the "Last Hundred Days" of the war with the breaking of the Drocourt-Queant Line and helped to liberate Mons, Belgium at the very end of the war. The battalion was disbanded in August 1920.