Around 650,000 Canadian soldiers fought in WW1. In the east, the Russian Army was able to mobilise more quickly than the Germans had anticipated and began advancing towards Germany’s borders.
It represented the first large group of Canadian soldiers to serve overseas. English Canadian men eagerly to sign up. John McCrae had just graduated from medical school but was preoccupied with ...
The researcher is attempting to identify if Private James Patrick Buckley is among skeletal remains discovered near the city of Lens in northern France Canadian soldiers in a captured German ...
Ian Hicks, from the history centre, explained that the wooden huts for the Canadian soldiers came about after a very wet winter in Wiltshire, "so hundreds were created". "They gave each hut a ...
Canadian soldiers were among the first to witness the horrors of modern warfare as "the war to end all wars" exploded onto the world stage. During the First World War, gas attacks killed or ...
He left the Canadian military with the rank of master corporal. He joined in 1992, and he hung up his uniform in 2018. The former infantryman did one tour in the former republic of Yugoslavia ...