RESPONSE BY RESERVISTS
CALL IN BRITAIN PROMPT ACTION TAKEN {British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9.30 a.m. RUGBY, Sept. 28. The prompt manner in which reservists-' of that .section of the army reserve who were recently called up for service in connection with reinforcing the garrison in Palestine reported" for duty is the subject of a statement issued by the War Office. The calling-up notices were received at the earliest by the reservists on Saturday morning, September 5. Less than 48 hours later no fewer than 70 per cent had enlisted for duty a.t their regimental depots, and by September 10 the total of resorvists rejoined was 99 per cent.
The men were scattered throughout the British Isles, and it is considered the figures bear witness to the excellent spirit of the reservists. Only 2 per cent were found medically unfit, and these were only temporarily SO on account of injuries and illness.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19133, 30 September 1936, Page 5
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