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...

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 National Defense Act of 1916, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 64–85, 39 Stat. 166, enacted June 3, 1916, was a United States federal law...

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

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

Universal Military Training clause was inserted that would have made all men obligated to perform 12 months of military service and training if the act was...

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

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

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...

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...

is the state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service, mainly a military service. Conscription dates back to antiquity and it continues in...

(created under the Naval Reserve Act of 1859) and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (created in 1903). The British military (those parts of the British Armed...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

from 15 February 1916 until 22 December 1916. This act was not printed by the King's Printer 6 & 7 George V - 1916 – via HathiTrust. List of acts of the...

[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...

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

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

Anzac Day has been commemorated in Malta since 1916. Since 1979 the service has been held at the Pietà Military Cemetery, as it contains the highest number...

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...

volunteer forces freely enlisted in the new British Service Army (the Military Service Act 1916 ("Conscription Act") did not apply to Ireland). Nevertheless, Republican...

Combat Forces)—known before October 1916 as Die Fliegertruppen des deutschen Kaiserreiches (The Imperial German Air Service, lit “The flying troops of the...