The issue of conscription or mandatory military service tore Canada apart during the First World War. Pictured here ... fewer than one in 20 were French. Of English Canadian volunteers, 70% ...

The first shots of World War One are fired in Africa ... On 27 January the government introduces conscription. All single men aged 18 to 41 can now be sent to war, although thousands are exempted ...

When World War One started millions of men volunteered to fight. Were they fearless patriots doing their duty or unlucky victims of government propaganda? Propaganda and conscription Many young ...

And, arguably, nothing illustrates better the relevance to the Ireland of Tilly’s argument than the conscription crisis of the spring of 1918. Within weeks of the World War One beginning in the ...

During the Second World War, Prime Minister Mackenzie King dodged a political bullet called conscription ... announced that he was now accepting it. One Minister called the act the most cold ...

Many were trying to avoid conscription squads Dark storm clouds ... But nor did these men want to spend the rest of the war in hiding. One of them, Oleksandr, had already opted to become a drone ...