recruitment in britan and the conscription

Question 1

Why did man join the army in 1914?

Answer 1

Pressure
Women
Adventure
Money
Misinformation
Patriotism
Fight the Germans

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Question 2

pressure

Answer 2

The government would advertise that women wanted you to go to war to fight for them and the children.
There where woman outside military registration offices that would hand you a white feather as a sign of dishonour if you didn’t sign up putting lots of social pressure on men

Question 3

women

Answer 3

Meny men believed that becoming a soldier would make women swoon for them when they returned that they would be hers to their eyes and that they could easily find a girl

Question 4

Adventure

Answer 4

The government advertised the army as an exciting adventure to live and not the destruction and bloodshed war actually is. They advertised as seeing the world and coming back home with Wonderfull stories

Question 5

Money

Answer 5

To people with less money life in the military was better than their current lives, they got three square meals a day and that was more than some of them could afford

Question 6

Misinformation

Answer 6

The government said it would be simple they said they would march over there destroy the germans and be back home for Christmas when in reality it was a long and brutal war

Question 7

Patriotism

Answer 7

The British were very proud of their country, they believed in fighting for their country and its honor

Question 8

Fight the germans

Answer 8

The British government made people think of the germans as monsters, a plague that had to be erratecated

Question 9

conscription

Answer 9

in January 1916 a conscription was introduced, all men between 18 and 41 had to join the army at the end of that year it was extended to all married men

Question 10

Recruitment numbers

Answer 10

247,000 before recruitment
1.1 million after recruitment