SECOND DIVISION RECRUITS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 36, 6 November 1917, Page 6

SECOND DIVISION RECRUITS

TWELVE WEEKS' NOTICE

VOLUNTARY ENLISTMENT

LIMITED

DATES OF MOBILISATION

Jltles that concern Sccond Division recruts are laid down in n recruiting circular just issued by Defence Headqmrters. They provide, among other things, thftt voluntary enlistment is now to be confined to nineteen-year-old and trenty-year-old recruits and to Classes A and B of tho Second Division. Harried ncn with two or more children arc not :o bo accepted as volunteers for the present. They will bo given a chance to enlist voluntarily immediately before the period when they would be reached in 'the ordinary course by the ballot. All recruits, voluntary or balloted, aro to be attested by a, district attesting officer and examined by a district medical board. Tho services of authorised individual medical practitioners will no longer bo used. All Second Division men, whether voluntarily enlisted or balloted, are to have twelve weeks' leave without ray after medical examination. "The policy of the Department," states the circular, "is that a Second Division reservist (both the volunteer and the balloted man) is to have at least twelve weeks In which to arrange his private affairs between tho date of his medical examination and the date of his concentration for the purpose of proceeding to camp." A tablo has been prepared for the guidance of Second Division men showing dates of medical examination with tho corresponding dates of mobilisation. Volunteers attested and medically examined, or balloted men medically examined between the dates given in the first column, will be ordered to concentrate for tho purposo of proceeding to camp with drafts which will Teach camp between the dates in the second column: Examination Date. Mobilisation Date. Oct. 10-Dec. 8, 1917 March 5-9, 1918 Dec. 12, 1917-Jan.s, 1918 April 2-6, 1918 Jan. 7-Feb. 2, 1918 April 30-May 4,1918 Feb. 4-Mar. 2, 1918 May 28-June 1, 1918 Mar. 1-Mar. 30,1918 June 25-29, 1918 Apr. 1-Apr. 27, 1918 July 23-27, 1918 Apr. 29-Hay 25,1918 Aug. 20-21,1918 May 27-Juno 22,1918 Sept. 17-21, 1918 Junc24-Ju1y20,1918 Oct. 15-19, 1918 July 22-Aug. 17,1918 Nov. 12-16, 1918 Aug. lfl-5ep.14,1318 Dec. 10-11, 1918 It is believed that Class A of the Second Division (married men without children) will provide three drafts, the first draft being mobilised between March 5 and March 9 next. Class B (married men with one child) is expected to provide four drafts. The tablo shows, tKerefore, that a man in Class B need not expect to be taken into camp before May 28 at earliest, whilo tho turn of the Class C man will not come, if present anticipations are justified, beforo September 17. Exceptions Made. The arrangement for three months' leave after medical examination does not apply to First Division men. Exception is made also in the cases of men called up under sections 34 and 35 of the Military Service Act. Section 24 provides that men who have failed to make application for enrolment in the Expeditionary Force Bcserve, and so have avoided the chances of tho ballot,' may be called up for service summarily, and the circular directs that such men shall not receive any leave, but shall bo sont direct to camp "either for foroipi service or for home service, according to their medical classification." Men called up under section 35 (dealing with families which have not contributed sons to the Army) are to be given until tho first concentration after their medical examination, provided that the period is not less than fourteen days. Position of Defaulters. In the caso of defaulters from medical examination, it has been decided that, where a Second Division reservist drawn in the ballot fails to attend for medical examination on the date ordered, he will forfeit the privilege of having twelve clear weeks from the date he actually does attend, unless ho proves that his failure fo attend on the date ordered was through causes beyond his control. If the reservist was to blame for his failure to undergo examination on the proper date, ho will bo sent to camp twelve weeks after ihat date, regardless of the actual date of the examination. Somo miscellaneous orders provide that attestation must precede medical examination in all cases, that recruits must hand in their enrolment certificates at the time of medical examination, that balloted men of the Second Division will be called up for medical examination in alphabetical order, and that the dental examination of all recruits shall be conductefl in camp.