![]() Headquarters did not intrude on their ability to choose the candidates deemed appropriate for duty. The selection of new soldiers was in the hands of recruitment officers and individual commanders. It was something that was only visible on the surface, only skin-deep. Were the men too young? Too old? Unhealthy? Weak and unable? No. Heeding the call to service and encouraged by the African-Canadian magazine, black men enthusiastically opened the doors of military recruitment offices across Canada to volunteer for duty. Back home, men of all backgrounds wanted to join the fight for democracy and the right to freedom. Battlefronts had become gruesome scenes of bloodbaths as Allied soldiers were decimated in violent skirmishes. ![]() The brutal battles of the First World War were taking their toll on troops overseas. “Your fortunes are equally at stake as those of your white brethren.” ![]() ![]() “Colored men! Your King and Country Need You!” shouted the headline in the Atlantic Advocate's September 1916 issue. ![]()
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