CALL TO SERVICE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 May 1939, Page 7

CALL TO SERVICE

FIRST CONSCRIPT GROUP IN BRITAIN ARMY AND NAVY RESERVES. TERRITORIAL & OTHER UNITS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. May IG. The first group of men to be called up under the Military Training Bill which it is hoped will be put on the Statute Book before Whitsun, will consist of between 40.000 and 50.000 men. They will receive notice on or about July 1 to report to their units a fortnight later. The registration of all mon between the ages of 20 and 21 liable under the Act will take place on June 3 and the medical examination will start on June 8. Under the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces Bill, which should also become an Act of Parliament next week, the Admiralty proposes, in order to increase the fleet’s preparedness, to-call up into service half of the Royal Fleet Reserve from June 15 for three months and the other half in mid-September. In the case of the Army, the first group of territorial and anti-aircraft units will be called up to report on June 11 and the first group of reservists on June 15. As regards the Royal Air Force, it is intended to call up by groups the personnel of the London squadron of the balloon barrage, and the first group will be required to report on June 11.