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    The Derby Scheme was introduced during World War I in Britain in the autumn of 1915 by Herbert Kitchener's new Director General of Recruiting, Edward Stanley...
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     7. SMEBE 1922, p. 228-231 "Derby scheme: Statement of the War Committee, 24 October 1916". Army recruiting: Derby scheme (paper) (Report). Records of...
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    During the First World War (in 1915), Rathbone was called up via the Derby Scheme into the British Army as a private with the London Scottish Regiment...
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    Derby railway station (/ˈdɑːrbi/ , also known as Derby Midland) is a main line railway station serving the city of Derby in Derbyshire, England. Owned...
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    In October 1915, as Director-General of Recruiting, he instituted the Derby Scheme, a halfway house between voluntary enlistment and conscription (which...
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    Derby (/ˈdɑːrbi/ DAR-bee) is a cathedral city and unitary authority area on the River Derwent in Derbyshire, England. Derbyshire is named after Derby...
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  • the process of conscription. Tribunals were published as part of the Derby Scheme in 1915, but were continued on a statutory basis by the Military Service...
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    Steven Hoffenberg (category Pyramid and Ponzi schemes)
    Corporation, a debt collection agency, which was later discovered to be a Ponzi scheme. In 1993, he rescued the New York Post from bankruptcy, and briefly owned...
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    The Great Stork Derby was a contest held from 1926 to 1936. Female residents of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, competed to produce the most babies in order...
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    of the Derby Scheme (originally planned for 30 November); although 2,950,514 men had attested, enlisted or tried to enlist during the scheme, a further...
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    were volunteers until January 1916, when men were recruited under the Derby Scheme and as conscripts following the Military Service Act 1916. From July...
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    Heritage Site. The site opened as Derby’s Industrial Museum, on 29 November 1974. A £17 million redevelopment scheme started in 2016, and the museum reopened...
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    voluntary enlistment, and latterly a kind of moral conscription called the Derby Scheme. The conscription issue divided the Liberal Party including the Cabinet...
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    was offered three choices: enlist at once, attest at once - under the Derby Scheme, or on 2 March 1916, be automatically deemed to have enlisted. In May...
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  • that on parade they formed a fourth company. The introduction of the Derby Scheme and subsequently of full conscription brought an influx of recruits to...
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  • Provisional Battalion. It absorbed large drafts of recruits under the Derby scheme in February 1916, and in June it moved into camp outside Ipswich. That...
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    that it did not complete its own fourth company until June, when the Derby Scheme brought a surge in recruits. Previously, many of the recruits sent to...
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    of equipment. Its units absorbed large drafts of recruits under the Derby scheme in February 1916. In Spring 1916 it took over coast defence duties, and...
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    12 Co and 44 from No 47). Most of them were recent recruits under the Derby Scheme with just a few weeks' training. The first officers and warrant officers...
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    and during World War I, joined the Artists Rifles regiment under the Derby Scheme. He was posted to France in November 1916 and fought in the Second Battle...
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    substances, including aspirin. Anderson registered for service under the Derby Scheme but was placed on the Army Reserve. This did not prevent a young woman...
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  • provided a new law for public organisations in Wales to have bilingual schemes, which would be supervised by the Welsh Language Board. Some private sector...
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  • 1945) 881 881 H. Rider Haggard She Z (Oct. 1945) 882 882 Ngaio Marsh Colour Scheme Z (Oct. 1945) 883 883 Zane Grey Desert Gold Z (Oct. 1945) 884 884 Harry...
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    beat Hughes on points in November. In 1917 he was called up under the Derby Scheme and served as a private in the Army Service Corps until being medically...
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  • Tablet Squire nagged and bullied till I went to fight, (Under Lord Derby's scheme). I died in hell— (They called it Passchendaele). My wound was slight...
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    Reserve. Next day it was joined by a reinforcement draft of 419 ORs, all 'Derby Scheme' recruits who had just arrived from 14th (Reserve) Bn, Rifle Brigade...
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  • potential problem due to his German background, he enlisted under the Derby Scheme and joined the 31st battalion of the Middlesex Regiment in 1917 at the...
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    that it did not complete its own fourth company until June, when the Derby Scheme brought in a surge in recruits. Previously, many of the recruits sent...
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    campaign for the army and spoke at rallies, particularly on behalf of the Derby Scheme. Formby was always worried that his son George would watch him on stage...
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    resigned in 1915 when The Spectator asked Strachey, in accordance with the Derby Scheme, to publicly announce his support for World War I.: 21–22  Upon the imposition...
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