Photograph depicts Rags, one of the mascots for the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams). Rags appears to be sitting on a bench at Beacon Hill Park.

Photograph depicts No. 1 Company of the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams) posing outside the parliament buildings in Victoria. The five officers seated in the front row are Captain Oswald Frances Drury Norrington, Captain Joseph Gordon Smith (officer commanding), Captain Conyers Bridgewater, Lieutenant Basil Champion Twaites and Lieutenant Gilbert. On the left side of the group is Rags, the battalion's canine mascot.

Photograph depicts No. 2 Company of the 143rd Battalion posing outside the parliament buildings in Victoria. The five officers seated in the front row chairs are Lieutenant Ernest LeMessurier, Captain Hugh Kennedy, Captain James Maxwell Reid (officer commanding), Lieutenant William Noble, and Lieutenant Herbert Mason Drost.

Photograph depicts No. 3 Company of the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams) posing outside the parliament buildings in Victoria. The five officers seated in the front row are Captain William Wallace Duncan, Captain Sidney Colgate, Major Frederic Wollaston (officer commanding), Lieutenant James Cyril Harding Benson, Captain James Harry Kerr.

Photograph depicts No. 4 Company of the 143rd Battalion posing outside the parliament buildings in Victoria. The five officers seated in the front row chairs are Lieutenant William Noble, Captain John Alexander Greenhill, Major Norman Eric Gore-Langton (officer commanding), Lieutenant Albert James Julier, and Lieutenant Ernest LeMessurier.

Photograph depicts soldiers of the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams) marking on Government Street. The parliament buildings can be seen in the background.

Photograph depicts soldiers of the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams) marching on Government Street. The parliament buildings can be seen in the background.

Photograph depicts soldiers of the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams) marching on Government Street. The parliament buildings can be seen in the background.

Photograph depicts soldiers of the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams) marching on Government Street. The parliament buildings can be seen in the background. Some members of the band can be seen, though they are not playing their instruments.

Photograph depicts soldiers of the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams) marking on Government Street. The parliament buildings can be seen in the background. The group is led by Captain James Maxwell Reid who is riding a horse.

Photograph depicts the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams) marching along Government Street in Victoria. The parliament buildings can be seen in the background. The group is led by Commanding Officer Lieutenant-Colonel Alan Bruce Powley and his second-in-command Major William Fothergill Cooke Tayler (both on the first two horses). Right behind them, also on horseback, is Captain Oswald Frances Drury Norrington.

Photograph depicts soldiers of the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams) marching on Government Street. The parliament buildings can be seen in the background.

Photograph depicts soldiers of the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams) marching on Government Street. The parliament buildings can be seen in the background. Some members of the band can be seen, though they are not playing their instruments.

Photograph depicts soldiers from the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams) marching on Government Street in Victoria. Members of the brass and drums band play their instruments while marching. The parliament buildings are visible in the background.

Photograph depicts soldiers of the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams) marching on Government Street. The parliament buildings can be seen in the background.

Photograph depicts the entire 143rd Battalion (British Columbia Bantams) outside the Provincial Parliament (Legislature) in downtown Victoria.

Photograph depicts the entire 143rd Battalion (British Columbia Bantams) outside the Provincial Parliament (Legislature) in downtown Victoria.

Photograph depicts two images of soldiers taken at Beacon Hill military camp. Both pictures show exceptional detail of the Canadian M1913 Service Dress uniform. Note in particular the details of their Oliver leather belts and the hook clasp tall standing collar. They also have special 143rd Battalion collar badges and 143rd shoulder title bars.

Photograph depicts the 143rd Battalion's recruitment office in Victoria. A group of soldiers, recruiters, pose for a picture outside the premises alongside the battalion's mascot Rags the terrier. There are several war-time recruitment posters. The 143rd Battalion was also known as the B.C. Bantams.

Photograph depicts the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams) on a routine march. The location is unspecified, but likely somewhere near Victoria. The group in the photo is led by an officer on horseback.

Photograph depicts the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams) on a routine march. The location is unspecified, but likely somewhere near Victoria.

Photograph depicts the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams) on a routine march. The location is unspecified, but likely somewhere near Victoria.

Photograph depicts band members of the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams) followed by infantry soldiers on a routine march near Willows Camp.

Photograph depicts the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams) on a routine march. The location is unspecified, but likely somewhere near Victoria.

Photograph depicts the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams) on a routine march. The location is unspecified, but likely somewhere near Victoria.

Photograph depicts the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams) on a routine march. The location is unspecified, but likely somewhere near Victoria. The group in the photo is led by a horse and two officers.

Photograph depicts the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams) on a routine march. The location is unspecified, but likely somewhere near Victoria.

Photograph depicts the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams) on a routine march. A number of soldiers wear rain capes. The location is unspecified, but likely somewhere near Victoria.

Photograph depicts the signallers' section of the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams). They are posed with all their signalling equipment including Begbie lamps, flags, telescopes, wire, morse code transmitters, and Indian motorcycles for despatch riders.

Photograph depicts the signaller's section of the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams). They are posed with Begbie lamps, telescopes, flags and electrical cables. On each end is a dispatch rider mounted on their Yale and Indian motorcycles.