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Combatant States - Central powers | Austro - Hungary | Germany | Turkey (Ottoman Empire) | Bulgaria
Combatant States - Allies | Serbia | Russia | France | Belgium | United Kingdom | Australia | Canada | India | New Zealand | Rhodesia | Union of South Africa | United States of America| Italy | Romania | Greece | Montenegro | Portugal | Japan
Entered War : 4 August 1914 (in support of Britain)
Political system : Self-governing dominion within the British empire (1867)
Leader : Robert Borden: prime minister, 1911-20
Population : 7.2 million (1911)
Army : 3,000 regular soldiers backed up by a volunteer militia (1914). Anticipating the outbreak of a European war, Canada established a Canadian Expeditionary Force in mid-1914, and 30,000 Canadian troops were training in Britain by November 1914. A total of 620,000 Canadians volunteered for service during the First World War, mainly in the army but also on naval duties and with the Royal Flying Corps.
Casualties by 1918 : 56,500 dead, 149,700 wounded