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Filling the Ranks: Manpower in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918 (Carleton Library Series)

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Manpower is the lifeblood of armies irrespective of time or place. Within the First World War, much of Canada’s military effort went toward sustaining the Canadian Expeditionary Force, especially in France and Belgium. The job used to be not easy. The federal government and Department of Militia and Defence were tasked with recruiting and training hundreds of thousands of men, shipping them to England, and creating organizations at the continent meant to forward these men to their units. The first book to explore the problem of manpower Within the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Filling the Ranks examines the administrative and organizational changes that fostered efficiency and sustained the army. Richard Holt describes national civilian and military recruitment policies and criteria both outside and inside of Canada; efforts to recruit women, convicts, and members of First Nations, African Canadian, Asian, and Slavic communities; the conduct of entry-level training; and the development of a coherent reinforcement structure. Canada’s ability to fill the ranks with trained soldiers in the long run helped make the Corps an elite formation inside the British Expeditionary Force. In accordance with extensive research in British and Canadian archives, Filling the Ranks provides a wealth of new information on Canada”s role Within the Great War.

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