BRITISH ARMY RECRUITS

Grey River Argus, 15 February 1941, Page 6

BRITISH ARMY RECRUITS

Next Week’s Registration RUGBY, February 13. The Ministry of Labour and National Service has announced that all men aged 19 are to register for military service on February 22. This is the first registration under the recent Royal Proclamation, extending the operation of the National Service (Armed Forces) Acts, to men of 18 and of 40 years. LATEST CALL-UP 18-YEAR-OLDS LEFT TO THE LAST RUGBY, February 13. /‘The Government is planning for. the utmost economy and efficiency in the use of manpower,” Lord Moyne, stated in the House of Lords. “The purpose behind the Government’s plans to effect the utmost economy and efficiency in the use of manpower was to ensure that every man of military age would be either in the forces, or doing work of national value which could not'be done by older men or by women. ' The nineteen-year-old men would be called up almost immediately, he said, and those not then reserved, or whose call-up was not postponed,.

would presently join the colours from about mid-April onwards. The present plan, he stated, _ was for the men up- to 40 to register in a group from 37 to forty, and .to leave the 18-year-old group to the last.