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The Canadian War Museum in Ottawa is hosting a temporary photography exhibit entitled, First World War – Far From Home.

The 19 photos all feature people of various nationalities and ethnicities who came to Europe to support the Allies in 1914-1918.

The photos are a mix of studio portraits and depictions of life on the frontline.

“Far From Home challenges assumptions about who fought for and worked in support of the Allied effort in Belgium and France during the First World War,” said James Whitham, acting director general of the Canadian War Museum. “Few are aware of the remarkable range of nationalities of those who came from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, North America and the Pacific — some fighting in the trenches of Flanders, others contributing their labour to the war effort.”

Indigenous Canadians are shown in the photographs as well.

Inuk sniper John Shiwak, an experienced trapper and hunter from Labrador, is shown posing in full Scottish regalia in a photographer’s studio before the war. In 1915, Mr. Shiwak enlisted in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. He died on the battlefield on November 20, 1917. 

“One in three able-bodied Indigenous men enlisted to fight in the First World War,” said Lieutenant-General Jean-Marc Lanthier, Commander of the Canadian Army, in a statement to mark Aboriginal Veterans Day in Canada. “In some communities, every man between the ages of 20 and 35 signed up to serve. At least 50 decorations were awarded to Indigenous members for their bravery and feats of valour.”

First World War – Far From Home will be on view until December 3, 2018, in the display corridor, as part of the Canadian War Museum’s multi-year program of exhibitions and activities commemorating the centenary of the First World War.

The exhibition was commissioned by the Belgian Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, and was presented at the United Nations Headquarters in New York earlier this year.