Conscription in WW1
- Created by: e.walker28
- Created on: 11-05-15 22:24
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- Conscription
- Lord Derby Scheme of 1915
- It involved trying to maintain voluntary recruitment and to avoid conscription
- 35,000 men needed every week
- Opposition to conscription
- 1916 - unmarried men faced conscription from January
- 1916 - conscription for married men (May)
- Both volunteering and conscription played a part in solving the problems of the government
- About half the men who joined the army during the First World War were conscripts
- Exemptions for example on health grounds (applied to munitions industry employment)
- Exemptions due to men not being fit enough to meet army standards
- There were far more exemptions than anticiapted and conscription initially produced fewer recruits than volunteering
- By the end of the war about half the men were volunteers and half were conscripts --> 5.7 million soldiers in total
- Lord Derby Scheme of 1915
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