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RECRUITNG IS PROECCEDING RAPIDLY

[Welland Tribune, 12 January 1915]

Recruiting for the 44th Regiment for home and overseas service is proceeding rapidly and for three days Capts. McLennahan and McGarry have been busily engaged in making medical examinations.

The vacant Quality Beds Factory has been leased as a barracks for the quota which is to go with the third overseas contingent. This quota will probably train here for a month or two.

LADIES PARIOTIC MEETING

A meeting has been called by Mrs. Crow for Wednesday (tomorrow) afternoon at 3 o’clock in the town hall, of all the ladies of Welland and vicinity, who are interested in the patriotic fund campaign.

The object of the meeting is to arrange for supplies to be given to the men on the three days of the campaign, next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. These supplies will materially aid the work by enabling the workers to compare notes and talk over plans.

44TH REGIMENT
VOLUNTEERS WANTED

For Home Service, preference given to men who volunteer for Overseas Service. Only men who are medically fit and between the ages of 18 and 5 years will be accepted. For overseas Service, married men must have the consent of their wives, men under 21 years of their parents and any man the sole support of his parent or parents must have the consent of that parent or parents; all consents must be in writing.

Application for enlistment be made to

Capt… N.G. Fite, Fort Erie
Capt. C.J. Ingles, Orderly Room, Welland.

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