Germany started both world wars.
Britain's army has long been small compared to some of her Continental neighbours because Britain is an island nation. Her military strength traditionally lies in her navy. Britain is a nautical power, not a land power.
Because there aren't any, that's why.
I'm sorry, but where does it say in either of those two articles that Canada established an air training centre for the entire Commonwealth? There were several such centres opened around the Commonwealth and about half of the pilots trained in the Canadian one were Canadian.
Around 42,000 Canadian military personnel died. Around 1,600 Canadian civilians died, giving a grand total of Canadian deaths of around 43,600.
Around 383,700 British military personnel died. Around 67,200 British civilians died, giving a grand total of British deaths of 450,900.
Canada's population at the time was 11 million and Britain's was 46 million. This means that over ten times as many Brits died as Canadians even though Britain's population was just over four times that of Canada. So, even taking Canada's smaller population into account, it still means that Britain had around two-and-a-half times as many deaths in WWII per head of population as Canada.
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