On This Day, 2 May 1917

Birmingham Mail

Wednesday 2 May 1917

MILITARY SERVICE

CALLING UP MEN FOR MEDICAL RE-EXAMINATION

ACTIVITY IN BIRMINGHAM

There is great activity to-day at the Birmingham recruiting offices. The Statutory Order under the Military Service (Review of Exceptions) Act, 1917, to men who have been previously rejected from service after medical examination, were sent out by registered post to the first batches of such men. This order calls upon them again to submit themselves for medical re-examination at the end of a fortnight. The number of men affected by the new Act is locally very large. Any man who would have been brought under the Military Service Acts by the Statutory Order, and who proves that he attained 41 years of age before the 30th day after the date of the Order, is not liable for military service. A man who fails to comply with such Order is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding £5, or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding three months.

The military authorities are completing their plans for the calling up for medical re-examination of men in Class B Army Reserve (in other words the lower medical categories). In the case of these men a fortnight’s notice will also be given.