Date:1915
Description:A recruitment poster warning men about the Military Service Bill and advising voluntary enlistment. The text reads 'If You / Intend To Join / Voluntarily / Before The / Military Service Bill / Comes Into Operation / Do Not Delay / ... / Join Now / ...'
Published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London, Poster No.146 and printed by David Allen And Sons Ltd., Harrow, Middlesex.
These posters are part of the Derby Scheme of recruitment during World War One. By 1915 numbers of recruits were falling and Edward Stanley (Lord Derby) introduced a scheme of voluntary enlistment in the winter of the same year. Under the scheme, men aged 18 to 40 could continue to volunteer, or they could ‘attest’ – this meant they did not have to fight straight away but could be ‘called up’ at any time. Men who registered under the scheme were grouped according to age and marital status with young single men being chosen to fight before older married men. The scheme was dropped in 1916 when the Military Service Act introduced conscription, compulsory enlistment into the armed forces.
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