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

View showing figures and horse-drawn vehicles on the street

seated left in wooden armchair

Year 5 (May 1797)

Illustration from The Illustrated War Record of the Most Notable Episodes in the Great European War 1914-1918

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.