For example, the Leeds Pals lost around 750 of their 900 participants ... soldiers were killed in WW1 across the world Despite the resistance against conscription, 1.1 million people were enlisted ...

Military conscription, commonly known as the draft ... though they serve voluntarily in many armed forces around the world. But as preoccupation grows with both gender equality and global ...

The issue of conscription or mandatory military service tore Canada apart during the First World War. Pictured here, soldiers standing by a sign denouncing men who did not sign up for the war.

But the concept of conscription has made headlines in recent ... More than 100 years later, the size of the British Army stands at around 76,000 soldiers, shrinking by almost a third since the ...

An escalation in the conflict in the Middle East surrounding the Israel-Hamas war, Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine and ...

Within weeks of the World War One beginning in the summer ... First, they decided that a campaign should be launched around an anti-conscription pledge which read: ‘Denying the right of the ...

Foreign Correspondence NEW YORK TIMES. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers may ...