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Page includes 6 photographs that depict George Westman, Harold Learoyd with unnamed young women (possibly Florence and her sister) posed in front of log fence. Photographs include general caption, Lc cpls. Geo. Westman & Harold Learoyd - May 24th 1916. Page also contains two clippings about recruitment for and training of the Forestry Battalion.

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  • [start of clipping] Another Forestry Battalion is to be raised in the eastern part of Canada. They are urgently needed in England and recruiting will be hurried with all possible speed. [end of clipping] [start of clipping] MORE SOLDIERS TO TRAIN HERE Ottawa will have about 1,500 men of the Forestry Battalion in training here. The 238th, now being organized, will go into the barracks vacated Tuesday of the Engineers Training Depot. It is expected that eventually the lumbermen will need both the Howick pavilion and the barracks on Isabella street to house all their men. The first lot, about 200, will move into Howick Hall early next week and the other recruits as soon as enlisted will be sent direct to barracks. The 238th will use Lansdowne Park for training purposes. Although it does not take as long to train a Forestry Battalion as it does an infantry unit for the reason that most of the men who enlist are accustomed to lumbering operation the same as they are going to do in England, yet it is expected that the battalion will be in barracks there for over a month. 4,000 Soldiers Here. Thus, though the 77th and the Engineers have both left the city, the number of men in trainnig[sic] here will not be materially reduced, and when the units now being enlisted are up to strength, there will be more soldiers training in Ottawa than at any time since the first mobilization of the men for the first contingent.The 207th will be 1,100 strong, the 230th 1,100 strong, the 238th about 1,500 strong, the Signallers about 350, making in all about 4,000 soldiers. Lt. Col. Smythe, M.P., commander of the 238th, has left for Vancouver to arrange for recruiting lumbermen there. A recruiting office has been started in Parry Sound one in the Cobalt district, and another at Arnprior. Ottawa will be the headquarters. It is expected that the battalion will go into barracks the first of next week at least 200 strong, not including officers. It has 114 men enlisted already and they are coming in rapidly. The battalion has authority to recruit men in Ontario and all provinces west. Among the promotions announced are: Sergt. J.H. Bradford to be pay sergeant; Pte. William Jesty, acting sergeant and pay clerk; Cyrille Archambeault, acting sergeant; Pte. Mellon Pearson, corporal; Pte. John Dagg, corporal. [end of clipping]
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