A French Canadian army recruitment poster tiger pattern seated left in wooden armchair

seated left in wooden armchair

Passengers disembarking from steamboats tied up in mid-stream at Hungerford Pier and ascending by stairs to footbridge level

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Illustration from The Illustrated War Record of the Most Notable Episodes in the Great European War 1914-1918

A French Canadian army recruitment poster tiger pattern seated left in wooden armchairA French Canadian army recruitment poster, 1914. 619,636 soldiers enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force sent to France in World War I. By the latter stages of the war the Canadians were regarded as elite troops by both the Allies and the Germans.