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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.
c. 25) (enacted in May of that year) and enforced full conscription on all male British subjects between 18 and 41 who were present in Great Britain, subject to certain exemptions. [2] By a royal declaration in January 1941, the term Great Britain was extended to include the Isle of Man. [3]
The British Army in 1813 contained over 250,000 men, [13] though this was much larger in comparison to the army at the beginning of the war, the all volunteer British army was still much smaller than that of France, which with conscription had an army over 2.6 million.
The Bill which became the Act was introduced by Prime Minister H. H. Asquith in January 1916. It received royal assent on 27 January, and came into force on 2 March 1916. . Previously the British Government had relied on voluntary enlistment, and latterly a kind of moral conscription called the Derby S
Conscription into a full-time military service had only been instituted twice by the government of Canada, during both world wars. Conscription into the Canadian Expeditionary Force was practiced in the last year of the First World War in 1918. During the Second World War, conscription for home defence was introduced in 1940 and for overseas ...
British conscientious objectors (4 C, 186 P) Pages in category "Conscription in the United Kingdom" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
For a century British governmental policy and public opinion were against conscription for foreign wars. At the start of World War I the British Army consisted of six infantry divisions , [ 3 ] one cavalry division in the United Kingdom formed shortly after the outbreak of the war, [ 4 ] and four divisions located overseas.
Possible Conscription Acts: United Kingdom. Military Service Act (United Kingdom) United States. Militia Act of 1792; Enrollment Act of 1863