A 6 inch by 9 inch wooden framed picture of the Landing of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade in France 1915. The Brigade was made up of the 13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada) the 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada), the 16th Canadian Scottish and the Royal Montreal Regiment. These members were faced with the gas attacks at Ypres.

The 3rd Canadian Division was formed in France in December 1915 under the command of Major-General Malcolm Mercer. Its members served in France and Flanders until Armistice Day. While with the 3rd Division at Ypres, Mercer became the highest-ranking Canadian officer killed in action during the First World War. On the same day, Brigadier V. A. Williams, commanding the 8th Infantry Brigade, became the highest-ranking Canadian officer captured in the First World War, also at the Battle of Mount Sorrel. Mercer was replaced by Louis Lipsett, who commanded the division until September 1918, shortly before he too was killed in action on 14 October 1918, while commander of British 4th Division. Major-General Frederick Loomis closed out World War I as the commander.