I have the death Cert of a man who was born and died in Canada he was born in 1881 and where it asks if this man was ever in the armed forces it says no , would it not have been compulsory to serve ???
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Canada didn't have conscription in the first world war until 1917, when he would have been in his mid 30s so perhaps he was too old, or perhaps he had a "reserved occupation", or he could even have been medically unfit.
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