A French Canadian army recruitment poster tiger pattern Passengers disembarking from steamboats tied

Passengers disembarking from steamboats tied up in mid-stream at Hungerford Pier and ascending by stairs to footbridge level

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Tarawera landscape looking back along the survey party's route and showing their footprints

seated left in wooden armchair

A French Canadian army recruitment poster tiger pattern Passengers disembarking from steamboats tiedA French Canadian army recruitment poster, 1914. 619,636 soldiers enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force sent to France in World War I. By the latter stages of the war the Canadians were regarded as elite troops by both the Allies and the Germans.