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At the time is was assumed it would consist of Volunteer s and proceed overseas. By the summer of 1942 it became obvious that there would not be enough volunteers, so National Resource Mobilization Act (NRMA) conscripts we assigned to the regiments of the Division to bring their numbers up the war establishment strength. This meant that the Division could only be used for home defence, unless the Parliament Of Canada ruled that conscripted men could be sent overseas. Two brigades were assembled in the early fall of 1942 in Camp Debert in Nova Scotia with the third at Camp Sussex in New Brunswick. |
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