Talk:Military history of Canada during World War I

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Contents 1 QUESTION 2 Writing and Grammar 3 Troop Numbers 4 numbers

[edit] QUESTION

How do you link this page into a Wikipedia page? I'm having troubles with that. Somebody please help!!!

[edit] Writing and Grammar

No offense to anyone involved in this page but it needs very serious revision. It is riddled with spelling, grammatical, and stylistic errors. --Ggbroad 00:52, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Troop Numbers

I havn't noticed one consistent number of troops that the Canadian Army had, or how many were in active service in the war. Somebody should do some research and look into the number.

You see different figures in different sources. One interesting question: when do you start and stop counting? It's not like people stopped serving (or stopped dying) on November 11, 1918 (and the standard figure for losses in WWII, 42,042, for instance, is computed to the end of 1947). The CEF recruited in 1919 and 1920. Col. Nicholson in the Official History gives a figure of 614,964 to the end of 1918 (619,636 to the end of 1920) of whom 470,224 served overseas. This is much higher percentage of overseas deployment than in WWII, incidentally. But a colleague of mine who is doing research in this area finds all sorts of cases of people enlisting, being discharged, and then enlisting again under a different name or just in the different place, so we can be sure that double counting went on, etc. So, you'll notice some recent sources - like Granatstein's "Hell's Corner" - avoids giving a precise number. Over 600,000 is a safe bet, of whom around 470,000 served overseas.--Ggbroad 14:54, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] numbers

i found these numbers in one of the links and find they should be included in the article on WW1 "For a nation of eight million people Canada's war effort was remarkable. A total of 619,636 men and women served in the Canadian forces in the First World War, and of these 66,655 gave their lives and another 172,950 were wounded. Nearly one of every ten Canadians who fought in the war did not return."

That number 619,636 is the number who served in the CEF to the end of 1920, not just during the war. It doesn't include Canadians who served in, for instance, the RFC but never the CEF or Canadians who fought in other armed forces. I wonder. Is it really a "remarkable" effort for a nation of 8 million? It's a mobilization rate of about 8%.