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- initialism Alternative spelling of
C. E. F. .
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Medals to this unit are very rare and highly prized by C.E.F. collectors.
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Medals to this unit are very rare and highly prized by C.E.F. collectors.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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We've come a long way from World War I, when only one major unit of infantry in the C.E.F. was allowed to be identified as French Canadian, and that was the 22nd Regiment or the "Vandoos" as they began to be known.
Canada and its Land ForcesA French Canadian Soldier's View 1979
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He served as a soldier in World War I for some three and a half years, being one of the youngest members of the 134th Battalion, Canadian Highlanders, C.E.F. He attended Trinity College and graduated from the University of Toronto as an M.D. in 1928.
KoreaToday 1957
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C.E.F. -- promoted to Lieutenant in 1915 -- Captain in 1916 and Major in 1917.
Department of Planning and Development Functions and Objectives 1950
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In the French and American Armies, the valor of the C.E.F. had won a reputation unequalled by any other fighting force; in New York people had invariably regarded Canada and Canadians with admiration and neighbourly affection, and in my travels I had seen nowhere anything that could compare in natural beauty with the granite shores and blue waters of Bon Echo.
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Officers in the C.E.F. are authorized: To be M.jor, Inspector G.L. Jennings; to be Captain, Inspector H.M. Newson; to be L.eutenants,
Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth
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In 1915 he purchased his discharge to go to the front; he rose to the command of the 116th Battalion, C.E.F., and won the V.C., the D.S.O., and La Croix de Guerre.
Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth
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This contingent was divided into four squadrons, the whole coming, of course, under orders of the Militia Department as part of the C.E.F., and on May 19, 1918, the following order was issued from Militia
Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth
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Powell of the C.E.F. found during 18 months 'service in the trenches, that a separate construction for the bottom and firing step from that of the parapet made repair much simpler when the trench was damaged by shell fire.
Military Instructors Manual Oliver Schoonmaker
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