translate English to French: In fact, the Order was very precise: these funds were to be directed to the Receiver General and into a special account created specifically for the National War Memorial.1 At that point in time, the Canadian government seemed ready to support the idea of a war memorial that would commemorate the great deeds its young soldiers had accomplished from the commencement until the end of the First World War – and even later, since one Canadian division would serve with the Allied occupation forces in Germany for a few months after November 1918.
De fait, une division canadienne a servi pendant quelques mois avec les forces alliées d’occupation en Allemagne, après novembre 1918, et d’autres Canadiens ont pris part aux interventions en Russie entre 1918 et 1920. En 1920, on envisageait toujours d’édifier un monument commémoratif, mais, après le changement de gouvernement survenu en 1921, cette idée n’a plus fait partie du programme politique pendant presque 20 ans2.