Frederick William Borden
Canadian politician (1847-1917) · Canada · On the map · Politicians · Died at 69
Sir Frederick William Borden, was a Canadian politician. While he was the Minister for Militia and Defence, he was the father of the most famous Canadian casualty of the Second Boer War, Harold Lothrop Borden.
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Historians credit him with creating and financing a modernised Canadian militia with a staff and medical, transport, and signals that proved important for allowing Canadian ground forces to deploy with their own support services as self-contained national contingents, albeit in an imperial framework. In this sense, he helped to create the foundations for the Canadian Expeditionary Force of 1914-1918.
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