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CANADIANS ON OTHER FRONTS

1914-1919

Canadian men and women served in many different capacities during the First World War.

Members of the Canadian Forestry Corps cut timber in Britain and France; Canadian railway troops operated light railway networks immediately behind the lines on the Western Front; medical units and Canadian Nursing Sisters served in the eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East, and on the Western Front; and Canadian military engineers served in Europe and the Middle East.

Over 6000 men from Newfoundland (which was to join Canada in 1949) served in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment and at sea with British forces from the beginning of the war. More than 1500 were killed. From mid-1918 until April 1919, nearly 5000 Canadian troops served as part of an Allied intervention force in revolutionary Russia.

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