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Recruitment by Canadian Forestry Corps in the US 1917


olaT

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Does anyone know if this was done? I know that there were British recruiters in the US before the US entry into war, but did this continue afterwards?

I have a US citizen crossing the border to Canada in 1917, on a list of persons entering Port Arthur in June this year a note is written regarding number of them: "These men enlisted in the Forestry Battalion under Maj. Huntington and were transferred to headquarter at Brockville, Ont." He went on serving in Europe for the Forestry Corps.

As a American citizen he would have been drafted. Did he prefer such, Canadian forestry, service to ordinary soldiering in the trenches?

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