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The Canada-US Border
The Canada-US Border
This community gathers stories of people who crossed the Canada-US border to serve with their neighbour country's forces. The Canadian army actively recruited in the US, looking for Britons to join the war effort, but drawing American-born men to the cause as well. Service records show that many Americans enlisted in Canada, even after the US had officially joined the war, and claimed to have been born in Canada or another Commonwealth country. Likewise, later in the war, some Canadian nurses went south to join up, and served with the American Red Cross.
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Born 1891
British Army M2/032283 Private Royal Army Service Corps
Other Empire Force 4714595 Private American Expeditionary Force - III Corps 160th Infantry Brigade - 80th Infantry Division
More about Harvey Alexander Hammill -
Born 1888
Died 1916
Canadian Expeditionary Force 823849
Canadian Expeditionary Force 823849 Private Canadian Infantry
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Born 1877
Died 1918
Canadian Expeditionary Force 2595843
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Born 1890
Canadian Expeditionary Force 2595845
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Born 1894
Canadian Expeditionary Force 2595853
More about Richard Watson Wilkie -
Born 1888
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1045766
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Born 1889
Died 1916
Canadian Expeditionary Force 476603
Canadian Expeditionary Force 476603 Driver Canadian Field Artillery
More about Leland Wingate Fernald -
Born 1897
Died 1917
British Army 227607 Private Canadian Infantry Battalion
Canadian Expeditionary Force 227607 Private 1st Canadian Division - 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade 7th Battalion (1st British Columbia)
More about Creighton Dewey Fitzgerald -
Born 1890
Died 1928
Other Empire Force Nurse American Red Cross Fox Hills Base Hospital, Staten Island, NY
Other Empire Force Nurse American Red Cross relief unit
Other Empire Force Nurse American Red Cross Base Hospital 136, Vannes, France
More about Mary Ellen Faragher -
Born 1880
Died 1937
Canadian Expeditionary Force 851011 Private Canadian Infantry 102nd Battalion
More about Irving Stewart -
Born 1891
Died 1970
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps
More about Frederick Libby -
Born 1874
Died 1955
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister
More about Alice Edith Isaacson -
Born 1889
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Agnes Huston -
Born 1898
Died 1918
Canadian Expeditionary Force 2595834
Canadian Expeditionary Force 2595834 Private Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
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Born 1899
Canadian Expeditionary Force 2622072
More about Horace January Lilleston -