BRITISH RECRUITING
ARMY AND TERRITORIAL , ’ FIGURES. GREAT INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.55 p.m.) RUGBY, May 2. Tile Secretary of Stalo for War. Mr Hoi’d-Belisha, in the House of Commons, stated that the number of.reifhuits who had joined the Regular Army since January 1 to March 1 was 49.415 and that recruits for the Territorial Army during the same period numbered 104.890. The Corresponding figures for the previous year were:— Regular Army, 36,598 and Territorial Army, 66,295. . Mr Horc-Belisha announced that 46,614 Territorials recruited last week atid the recruits for April totalled 84,000. A number of units had completed their second line and 240 had completed their first line war strength.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1939, Page 6
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