BRITISH FORCES
REGISTRATION DATES
(British Official Wireless.) (Received March 16, 10.30 a.m.)
RUGBY, March 15
The Ministry of Labour announces that two further dates have now been fixed for the registration of men under the national service Armed Forces Act, 1939. The first is April 6 for men reaching the age of 20 between March 10 and April 6, 1940, and men who reached the age of 25 during 1939.
The second is April 27 for men reaching the age of 20 between April 7 and iApril"27, 1940. and men who reached the age of 26 during 1939. At present it is not anticipated that the 1912 class —men who reached the age of 27 during 1939—wi1l be called upon to register before June.
It is anticipated that both of the two age groups comprising men of 25 and 26 years of age which will be required to register during April will produce some 300,000 men: Owing to the fact that 25 is the minimum agelimit for a number of trades placed on the list of reserved occupations, it is evident that the percentage of reserved men in this group will be much higher than hitherto. Some 1,250,000 men have been registered between last June and March. SL
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 65, 16 March 1940, Page 13
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