Aspects in Breadth - Recruitment

Question 1

What was impressment?

Answer 1

Being forced by a Press Gang to enter the Navy

Question 2

How did Press Gangs force individuals into the navy?

Answer 2

Kidnapping them while they were drunk, by force or while in their sleep

Question 3

What was taking the king’s shilling?

Answer 3

Promising to join the army if asked by taking a coin

Question 4

When was impressment into army made illegal?

Answer 4

After the Napoleonic Wars - 1815

Question 5

When was the Royal Naval Reserve created?

Answer 5

1859

Question 6

How many years of service in the Navy and the Army was needed to gain a pension?

Answer 6

Army - 21 years
Navy - 20 years

Question 7

What was general service?

Answer 7

General Service Enlistment Act of 1856 - required every soldier of Bengal army to go overseas for deployment if required

Question 8

What was the most effective recruiter into the armed forces?

Answer 8

Poverty

Question 9

What was the Pals Battalion?

Answer 9

volunteer battalions consisting of men who enlisted together as groups of local friends for the British Army during World War 1

Question 10

When was the Pals Battalion started?

Answer 10

21 August 1914

Question 11

Why was the Pals Battalion ended?

Answer 11

Introduction of conscription + whole villages losing men

Question 12

Who was in charge of recruitment in September 1915?

Answer 12

Lord Kitchener

Question 13

What increased German troop numbers in 1915 and 1916?