NUMBER OF CANADIAN EX-SERVICE MEN CARED FOR BY THIS BUREAU:
It may not be out of order to mention at this time that the U.S. Veterans’ Bureau through its Foreign Relations Section, Medical Division, has cared for over 9,000 Canadian ex-service men. When I say Canadian ex-service men, please know that these are not in reality Canadians, but that 95% of the number are American boys, who, through their valor and enthusiasm, rushed into the breach in the early stages of the conflict, having crossed the Canadian border in 1914, 1915, 1916 and 1917. Their Services having been rendered under the English flag in Canadian organizations, these boys are properly beneficiaries of the Canadian Government, and are being cared for by that Government through the U.S. Veterans’ Bureau, Foreign Relations Section, Medical Division, by cooperation with the Department of Soldiers’ Civil Re-Establishment, which is an organization of the Canadian Government, similar to the U. S. Veterans’ Bureau. The personnel of the Department of Soldiers’ Civil Re-Establishment is something over 6,000, divided into 10 medical units, or districts. The Foreign Relations Section, Medical Division, of the Bureau is constantly in receipt of requests for service from allied ex-service men with whose government this Bureau has no reciprocal agreement. These cases are promptly referred to the representative of that government located in Washington with a view of giving service if the Government under whose flag the man served will authorize the service.