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ACTIVE CAMPAIGN TO FILL YORK BATTALION
Energetic Measures to Secure Young Men Who Are Still Eligible.
Practically every business and professional man in Newmarket yesterday pledged his hearty support to the work of raising recruits for the 220th York Overseas Battalion, and today an active campaign will be undertaken to raise the Newmarket end of it in record time. Following the campaign put up by Lieut.-Col. Clarke, it was at one time feared that difficulty would be experienced in getting the men, but latest reports are reassuring.
Scarboro [Scarborough] has been one of the most active of all the municipalities in the county in raising recruits, but at least 40 young unmarried men are still eligible for active service and can be spared without working any hardship on the farmers themselves. These figures, it is said, can easily be duplicated in every other municipality in the county.
Lieut.-Col. Brown is adopting the most energetic measures to secure men, and officers have been despatched to all centres.
Photograph of the 220th Battalion in training in Canada (private collection M. I. Pirie)
Transcribed by: M. I. Pirie