The great losses in the early war and th realisation that war was not fun meant that in 1915 the army badly needed more men.
The gov consdered conscription and by the end of 1915 set up a natonal register of men aged 15-65
Then initiated the derby Scheme where men were asked to promise that they would sign up if they were asked-it said that married men would be called up after single men and that those with a good rason would be exempted.
But when less than half of the men in the country agreed they were forced to take more extreme action.
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