The 1st Canadian Division, an operational command and control formation of the Canadian Joint Operations Command, was raised shortly after the outbreak of World War I and started training upon the arrival in the Untied Kingdom in 1914.
The 1st Canadian Division (French: 1 Division du Canada) is an operational command and control formation of the Canadian Joint Operations Command, based at CFB Kingston. The First Contingent of the Canadian Expeditionary Force was raised in August 1914, shortly after the outbreak of World War I, concentrated at Valcartier Camp in Quebec, and set off for England in the largest trans-Atlantic convoy to date two months later. Training and reorganization commenced upon arrival in the United Kingdom in October 1914, and it was not until 26 January 1915 that the division was officially organized, under the command of Lieutenant-General Edwin Alderson, a British Army officer. 
