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In <wjoke.834340644@lark>, wjoke@lark.magic.mb.ca (Jim Oke) writes:
>bbcat@netonecom.net    (Michel Catudal) writes:
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>>I found your piece of History very interesting. My died died at 85 a few years
>>ago and all he could remember about the past was when he was a little kid.
>>He told me stories about the Boers war just like it was present history.
>>One of his uncles had been drafted for that war and from what he described this
>>war was horrible. The way the British treated the Boers was horrible. That uncle
>>was a soldier for the British but was treated like garbage.
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>Check your history, Michel. There was NO conscription in Canada during the
>Boer War. The various Canadian military units that went to S. Africa were
>a special case, essentailly volunteers largely privately funded to avoid
>treading on Quebec sensitivities. But perhaps your father's uncle was
>living in England at the time, the British Army may have used conscrition
>at that time in which case your statement could be accurate! The US had
>conscription at that time but was not involved in any way in the Boer War
>that I have heard of.
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