HIS102Y1 Lecture : Summer 2011
Document Summary
Canadian troops returning from the battle of the somme 1916. Borden always stated that the troops sacrifice and performance forced britain to acknowledge the colonies and grant them greater rights. Canada was the largest colony (within the dominion) to have the most troops killed. If they were going to be making these sacrifices, borden would get as much as he could for canada when canadians were overseas and went under british command they got to see british operations. this became a sore point between borden and the british empire. borden did not see the british government doing much to save lives. ~425 000 actually were in combat there were a significant number in other military posts: some at sea and in the air - although navy was very limited. The royal air force - collection of different parts of british armed forces then came together in 1918. 22 000 canadians served in the raf.
