BRITISH RECRUITING ABROAD.
Measures are now being taken to enlist British subjects resident in the United States for service in the British Army. Recruiting officers are accepting men also for the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and in every ease the recruits are being promised free passage back to the United States. The term of enlistment is the duration of the war and for six months thereafter. Men enlisting for service itT the Canadian force will receive Canadian pay and allowances, which in the case of private soldiers are at the rate of 4s 7d a day and £5 a month for dependants, a condition of the separation allowance being that the soldier must allot half his pay. Recruits enlisting in the British Army will receive Canadian rates of pay from the day of attestation until the day of embarkation, and subsequently pay at the rates current in (he British Army, which range from Is a day for the infantry private, with separation allowances rising from 11s Id a week in the case of wife only to 24s 3d in the case of wife and four children.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1747, 14 August 1917, Page 4
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185BRITISH RECRUITING ABROAD. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1747, 14 August 1917, Page 4
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