Recruitment card from the 255th Battalion, the Queen's Own Rifles, a unit raised in Toronto. This insidious form of recruitment asked people to turn in those men who had not voluntarily enlisted. Recruiters would locate the named men, and then attempt to shame, or even threaten, them into enlisting.
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George Metcalf Archival Collection
CWM 19940004-132
Canada and the First World War
