The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . were required to expose them- selves to the fire of the enemy. The fourdivisions, of 19,000 men each, made up 76,-000 men. Corps troops, mostly artillery,totalled 11,000, bringing the number of menin the Army Corps up to 87,000. Besidesthese, were a brigade of cavalry of 3,000men, including a strong draft from theNorthwest Mounted Police; 15,000 menengaged in cutting down trees and milling;15,000 engaged in railway construction andrepair; salvage troops and units caring fortlie Jiealth of the army. Canada also
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . were required to expose them- selves to the fire of the enemy. The fourdivisions, of 19,000 men each, made up 76,-000 men. Corps troops, mostly artillery,totalled 11,000, bringing the number of menin the Army Corps up to 87,000. Besidesthese, were a brigade of cavalry of 3,000men, including a strong draft from theNorthwest Mounted Police; 15,000 menengaged in cutting down trees and milling;15,000 engaged in railway construction andrepair; salvage troops and units caring fortlie Jiealth of the army. Canada also main-tained 12,000 men at home to defend ca-nals, bridges, internment camps and otherplaces of importance, and a garrison wasmaintained at St. Lucia, a military post inthe West Indies. A few Canadians alsoserved in railway construction gangs or inhospitals in Palestine and Macedonia. Hundreds of Canadian soldiers obtainedcommissions in the imperial or Britisharmy. Two hundred Canadian officerswere lent to the Untied States for instruc-tional purposes. At least one in every three. These Canadians are not dead, but just resting. Any old place suits them. CANADAS PART IN THE WAR 331
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