FYI: Borden was Prime Minister, not Commander of Canadian Corp.
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The CEF (Canadian Expeditionary Force) was organized into four divisions and fought as a part of the British Army as the Canadian Corps.
The original commander was Lieutenant General E. A. H. Alderson, replaced in June 1916 by Lieutenant General Sir Julian Byng (later Viscount Vimy).
Douglas MacArthur
The commander who led the American Expeditionary Force (the U.S. troops sent to Europe in World War I) was John Joseph Pershing.
Luxembourg lost the least troops during the First World War.
The commander of the Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II was General Douglas MacArthur
During World War II, the supreme military commander of American (and, in fact, all Allied troops) in the European Theater of Operations was General Dwight D. Eisenhower. An American, Eisenhower's position in the Pacific Theater of Operations was held with equal effectiveness by two other Americans, Admiral Chester Nimitz and General Douglas MacArthur.