THE MILITARY AGE.
MEN OP 45 NOT’ SENT TO FRANCE. - By Telegraph— Special Correspondent. WELLINGTON, June 7. The Government pas received advice from General Richardson in England in reply to the inquiry as to what was being done with men approaching the age limit of 45 years. General Richardson replies simply that men who are over 45 are not sent to France. Other advice received . previously was to the effect that a difference in this respect is made between summer and winter campaigning, and that, while in summer men of 45 are taken, in winter no man over 42 is sent across the Channel to fight. It is probable that the Government will in future refuse to take for active service men who will have attained the age of 45 before they can reach the firing line, which means that they will not take men of over 44 or 44j years of age. No decision to this effect has been made, but in view of General Richardson’s advice, some such decision seems to he inevitable.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4580, 8 June 1917, Page 5
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