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We didn't have conscription in WW1, but we did in WW2 and then "National Service" in the 50s. In the 60s there was a draft that had a "ball draw" every month wi

by rswail 4y ago

We didn't have conscription in WW1, but we did in WW2 and then "National Service" in the 50s. In the 60s there was a draft that had a "ball draw" every month with the date (a ball numbered from 1-28/30/31) and if you turned 18 on that date of the month, you were drafted. There were exemptions but it still seems a cruel form of gambling in a way.

opo 4y ago
>We didn't have conscription in WW1, ... There was a military draft in WW I: >...By the end of World War I, some two million men volunteered for various branches of the armed services, and some 2.8 million had been drafted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Service_Act_of_1917 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Service_Act_of_1917