Fighting

A typical patriotic image from the First World War, by British artist Cyril Cuneo.

"There's lots happening here - join us in the 150th Battalion" - a recruiting postcard drawn by artist Louis Keene and sent from Amherst, Nova Scotia, where the Montreal unit was training.

An infantry officer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, used this British military manual during the Second World War.

Carl Atkins was exempted under the Military Service Act on the grounds that he was physically unfit for military service.

This leaflet was distributed as an introduction a London rest club for the Empire’s soldiers during the First World War.

These messages were conveyed to all Canadian units on the eve of the D-Day landings in 1944.

Private Harold Drake, like all soldiers, was required to seek the permission of his Commanding Officer to marry, and had to provide supporting documents as well.

During the Second World War, the federal government produced frequent updates on the nation's war effort as a quick reference for journalists, politicians, business leaders, and the general public.

Mary has been waiting for her husband Charlie to come home from the war, but in reality he has been torn to shreds by a shell - a cautionary tale in a German propaganda leaflet distributed to the Allied invasion forces in Normandy, one that was obviously not intended to teach spelling.

"These Germans are damned good soldiers" - so this propaganda leaflet advised Allied soldiers to write home right away, for they might not live to have another chance.