On This Day, 3 May 1918

Birmingham Mail

Friday 3 May 1918

THE NEW CALL UP.

MEN OF 43 AND 44.

It is announced that men of 43 and 44 years of age may expect to received their notices to submit themselves for medical examination within the next few days. The call will not, it is understood, be uniform throughout the country, as in some districts the medical boards are too fully occupied for the present in dealing with the younger men to commence upon the new classes of men who for the first time come within the scope of the Military Service Act.

In Birmingham there is an evidence of activity in regard to the older men who attested under the Derby Scheme. A number of these who, by reason of their 41^st birthday falling early in the year would not have been of military age under the Military Service Act of 1916, and who have up to the present have been allowed to remain in civil life, are now receiving notices to present themselves for medical examination. For instance, an attested man who completed his 41^st year in January, 1916, and is now 43, has received his notice to present himself to the Medical Board for examination next Friday. Another in a similar position received an application from the National Service Department marked “for statistical purposes” requiring him to furnish particulars in regard to his employment and the particular kind of work on which he is engaged.