CANADIAN TROOPS
i THIRD CONTINGENT LANDS IN ENGLAND
I ATLANTIC PASSAGE MADE WITHOUT INCIDENT. I SECOND DIVISION ORGANISED. The third contingent of Canadian troops has landed at a West Coast port in England, Coventry reports. The men were brought across the Atlantic in famous liners, escorted by the Royal Navy, without incident. Included in the contingent were a number of men who had completed their training in the Empire Air .Scheme and a number of Red Indians, whose occupations fully qualified them for their particular job, that of snipers. The Second Division of Canadian troops will leave Canada as soon as the First Division, now in England, goes to the front.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1940, Page 5
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