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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.
Ministry of National Service is established. [26] 21 May 1917 The first National Kitchen is opened by Queen Mary in Westminster Bridge Road, London, providing cheap meals for those affected by food shortages. [27] A German Gotha G.IV bomber in flight, 1917. 25 May 1917 First raid on England by German Gotha heavy bomber aircraft at Folkestone in ...
The Military Service Act 1916 [1] (5 & 6 Geo. 5. c. c. 104) was an act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom during the First World War to impose conscription in Great Britain , but not in Ireland or any other British jurisdiction.
By April 1915, just two million rounds of shells had been sent to France; by the end of the war the figure had reached 187 million, [140] and a year's worth of pre-war production of light munitions could be completed in just four days by 1918. Aircraft production in 1914 provided employment for 60,000 men and women; by 1918 British firms ...
First Division, shelling from both sides continued during the rest of the day, ending only at nightfall. [46] [47] The peace between the Allies and Germany was subsequently settled in 1919, by the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles that same year. [citation needed]
A memorial service was held in the evening at Westminster Abbey, which was attended by members of the royal family and Prime Minister Theresa May. During the service, Steinmeier read out a passage from 1 St John 4:7–11 in German. [29] Similar events were held across the United Kingdom's constituent countries and Crown Dependencies.
On 18 April 1918, acting on a resolution of Dublin Corporation, the Lord Mayor of Dublin (Laurence O'Neill) held a conference at the Mansion House, Dublin.The Irish Anti-Conscription Committee was convened to devise plans to resist conscription, and represented different sections of nationalist opinion: John Dillon and Joseph Devlin for the Irish Parliamentary Party, Éamon de Valera and ...
The NCC was re-formed during August 1940, just over a year after conscription was reintroduced. [10] The corps was composed of conscripted men who had been registered as non-combatants by tribunals. [11] Unlike in the First World War, there were also enlisted members of the NCC who had been deemed not physically competent for combatant service ...