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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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