No. 2 Construction Battalion
1916 - 1920
Nova Scotia

Military Secretary
Interdepartmental Committee
21 February 1917

Memo to The Naval Secretary
Interdepartmental Committee

H.Q. 600-10-35, f.d.25.

We want to send overseas a labour batallion, composed of Negroes, with whom white troops object to travel.

We should like to embark this batallion, by itself, in the NORTHLAND due to leave Halifax, N.S., on the 10th or 11th proximo.

Do you object to that vessel sailing without an escort? I suppose she would (be) looked after as she approached home waters. The shipping Company concerned is prepared to take the risk.

W. GWatkin
Major-General
For Military Secretary
Interdepartmental Committee
— Original in Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa.



Note: "proximo" means "next month."
In this memo, "the 10th or 11th proximo" means "the 10th or 11th of March" 1917.


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