A 17-year-old Canadian soldier lies in a casualty clearing station. He was wounded only 15 minutes before the Armistice on 11 November 1918. Although the legal age requirement for Canadian soldiers was between 18 and 45, thousands of male adolescents served overseas as illegal underage soldiers.
George Metcalf Archival Collection
CWM 19930065-404
Canada and the First World War
