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During World War I, the Dominions raised their own armies, but were under the British command structure, and very much integrated into the British fighting forces. Over 2.5 million men, which included Canada sending 418,000 men overseas, Australia sending 322,000, South Africa sending 230,000, New Zealand sending 124,000, and other volunteers ...
During the war, the British Army raised 43 infantry divisions. [ citation needed ] Not all of these existed at the same time, and several were formed purely as training or administrative formations. Eight regular army divisions existed at the start of the war or were formed immediately afterwards from garrisons in the Middle East.
Conscription during the First World War began when the British Parliament passed the Military Service Act in January 1916. The Act specified that single men aged 18 to 40 years old were liable to be called up for military service unless they were widowed with children, or were ministers of a religion.
The Caribbean Regiment (fully the First Caribbean Regiment or 1st Caribbean Regiment, and sometimes referred to as the Carib Regiment) was a regiment of the British Army during the Second World War. The regiment went overseas in July 1944 and saw service in Italy, Egypt and Palestine .
The Conscription Crisis of 1918 occurred when the British Government tried to impose conscription on Ireland. Sinn Féin was publicly perceived to be the key instigator of anti-conscription feeling, and on 17 May the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , Lord French , claiming there was a treasonable plot between Sinn Féin and the Germans , ordered the ...
The Home Guard appears in a scene in the film Hope and Glory (1987) when a unit shoots down a wayward barrage balloon [37] and in the 2003 "War Games" episode of the British detective series Foyle's War, which is set in Hastings during World War II.
Bevin Boys receiving training from an experienced miner at Ollerton, Nottinghamshire, February 1945. Bevin Boys were young British men conscripted to work in coal mines between December 1943 and March 1948, [1] to increase the rate of coal production, which had declined through the early years of World War II. [2]
The military history of the United Kingdom in World War II covers the Second World War against the Axis powers, starting on 3 September 1939 with the declaration of war by the United Kingdom and France, followed by the UK's Dominions, Crown colonies and protectorates on Nazi Germany in response to the invasion of Poland by Germany. There was ...