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The British Army in World War 2
During the First World War, the British Army was transformed from a voluntary, professional force backed up by a voluntary reserve into a 'national' army recruited by conscription. It was able to make this transition without a material decline in its' effectiveness, and this is a considerable credit to the regimental system and the calibre of its personnel. At the start of the war, ther ....
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.... extended the age limit to 51, and the government was compelled to abandon its undertaking not to send aboard troops under the age of 19. Conscription was never applied to Ireland. Upto February 1916 more than 2,631,000 men volunteered, from then to the armistice another 2,339,000 were conscripted. A major consequence of this saw women employed in previously male occupations.
The End of the First World War, saw the RAF replace the Army as pol ....
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