The Military Service Act 1916 was an Act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom during the First World War to impose conscription in Great Britain...

Military Service Acts were introduced to enact conscription: Military Service Act 1916, introduced in January 1916 in the UK during World War I Military...

of the military, particularly the National Guard. The principal change of the act was to supersede provisions as to exemptions. The 1916 act included...

August 1918 to a maximum age of 45. The military draft was discontinued in 1920. The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was passed by Congress on September...

legal, sanction for the move. It was conducted under the Military Service Referendum Act 1916. The referendum sparked a divisive debate that split the...

a statutory basis by the Military Service Act 1916, which brought in conscription. There were 2,086 local Military Service Tribunals, with 83 County...

Retrieved 29 October 2016. 'Military Service Act 1916', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/military-service-act-1916, (Ministry for Culture and...

The Selective Service Act of 1917 or Selective Draft Act (Pub. L. 65–12, 40 Stat. 76, enacted May 18, 1917) authorized the United States federal government...

so, wartime manpower needs were sufficiently great that by 1916 the Military Service Act would be passed instituting compulsory conscription. By mid-1915...

volunteers until January 1916, when men were recruited under the Derby Scheme and as conscripts following the Military Service Act 1916. From July 1917, all...

Military service is service by an individual or group in an army or other militia, air forces, and naval forces, whether as a chosen job (volunteer) or...

MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), officially the Security Service, is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and...

into law in the Military Service Act 1916.[citation needed] Like McKenna, Runciman was against total warfare of which Compulsory Service formed a major...

during the First World War on 6 December 1916 to facilitate the Hindenburg Programme, an attempt by the military to mobilize scarce resources, including...

was used to house conscientious objectors who broke the Military Service Act 1916. In April 1916 there was an Easter Rising in Ireland, where rebels hoped...

Front (1914–1916), subsequently imprisoned in Britain for his absolutist conscientious objection to the Compulsory Military Service Act 1916. After the...

practice in which the compulsory enlistment in a national service, mainly a military service, is enforced by law. Conscription dates back to antiquity...

[weasel words] Great Britain had to resort to conscription under the Military Service Act 1916, like the other great powers involved in the war. (Conscription...

National Service following the Second World War, has a controversial history which dates back to the implementation of compulsory military training and...

enlist for home service only, until March 1915. The Military Service Act 1916 forced those under the age of 41 to sign the Imperial Service Obligation or...

the Military Service Act in January 1916. The Act specified that single men aged 18 to 40 years old were liable to be called up for military service unless...

21, 1936, by the virtue of National Defense Act of 1935. It is patterned after the United States Military Academy, in West Point, New York. The academy...

The Mexican Border Service Medal was a U.S. service medal established by an Act of Congress on July 9, 1918. It was awarded for service on the border between...

Courtneidge, a theatrical manager, in Hampstead. On 2 March, the Military Service Act 1916 came into force and Hulbert was expecting to be conscripted into...

administrative requirements for the National Guard. The National Defense Act of 1916, as part of the mobilization prior to U.S. entry into World War I, increased...

refuse military service was not introduced until the First World War. Britain introduced conscription with the Military Service Act of January 1916, which...

a member of the Warwickshire County Appeal Tribunal under the Military Service Act 1916, the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, the Birmingham Local...

United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States. The armed forces consist of six service branches: the Army, Marine Corps, Navy...

received the 1914 Star. The period of eligibility was prior to the Military Service Act 1916, which introduced conscription in Britain. The creation of the...

participation in World War I, and after a visit to Britain in 1916, where the Military Service Act 1916 had been passed earlier in the year, he became convinced...