Beginning immediately upon his arrival at his first overseas posting, he organised and delivered three successive and successful ministerial visits.

After two years, he received his first overseas posting to the Cape Colony (now South Africa).

She was sent overseas in 1917, at the age of 55, posted to Taplow, England, and then with No. 2 Canadian Stationary Hospital in France.

Approximately 1,000 Canadian women served with the WRCNS abroad during the war, of which half were posted to Newfoundland, a location that was considered an “overseas posting” as Newfoundland did not become part of Canada until 1949.