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Militiamen in training at Oswestry camp. 27th July 1939 The Militiamen were
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Militiamen in training at Oswestry camp. 27th July 1939 The Militiamen were
Militiamen in training at Oswestry camp. 27th July 1939
The Militiamen were the result of The Military Training Act 1939 which was an Act of Parliament passed by the Conservative administration on 26 May 1939, in a period of international tension that led to World War II. The Act applied to males aged 20 and 21 years old who were to be called up for six months full-time military training, and then transferred to the Reserve..
Men called up were to be known as militiamen to distinguish them from the regular army. To emphasise this distinction, each man was issued with a suit in addition to a uniform. The intention was for the first intake to undergo six months of basic training before being discharged into an active reserve. They would then be recalled for short training periods and attend annual camps.
There was one registration under the Act, of the first cohort of liable males, on Saturday 3 June 1939, and call-up for these men followed
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Birmingham Post and Mail Archive
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Oswestry
Shropshire
England
Media ID 21841270
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