Unwanted Warriors

Nic Clarke is the curatorial manager of Diefenbunker, Canada's Cold War Museum. His research primarily focuses on disability and health in Canada during the Great War period. He has published articles on a variety of subjects, including the diet of Canadian soldiers during the Great War, hockey and the Great War, and the treatment of disabled children in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canada.

• Introduction1 Grading Blocks of Meat: The Fit and the Unfit2 No Longer Cause for Rejection3 An Imperfect System4 Clashing Concepts of Fitness5 Not Visibly Different: Describing the Rejected6 Uncounted Casualties: The Costs of Rejection7 Claiming Disability to Avoid Military ServiceConclusionAppendices, Notes, Bibliography

...highly recommended for students of the Great War.- Mark Humphries, Wilfred Laurier University (Canadian Military History, Vol 27, Issue 2) In Nic Clarke's well-researched and well-written Unwanted Warriors: The Rejected Volunteers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, the historian at the Canadian War Museum has provided his readers with an illuminating study pertaining to Canada and the First World War based largely on previously unexamined sources … Clarke provides his readers with a new way of looking at recruitment, loyalty, duty, casualties, and conscription in Canada between 1914 and 1919. - Jordan A.S. Chase (Ontario History) This book is an interesting and very worthy addition to World War I historiography.- Peter L. Belmonte, author of Forgotten Soldiers of World War I: America's Immigrant Doughboys (Army History, No. 109)