HOME DEFENCE
CANADIAN FORCES REDUCED
OTTAWA, Sept. 14
The Minister of Defence, Colonel Ralston, has announced the reorganisation of the Canadian Home Army. The Seventh and Eighth Divisions will be disbanded and the Sixth Division partially disbanded. The plan particularly affects portion of the army in Canada allotted to operation tasks. The reorganisation will reduce Canada's home defence by 20,000 men. Colonel Ralston explained that the step is one of a number taken or contemplated in the light of the improved strategic situation, a pressing manpower shortage and because the army has passed the expansion stage.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 219, 15 September 1943, Page 3
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