BRITISH ARMY
APPROACHING STRENGTH OF 21 MILLIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, March 17. Britain’s total Army strength within the next tWo to three months will be nearly two and a half millions. One in every 6', families in Britain and Northern Ireland has a member in the national Army today, compared with one in every 28 families a year ago. One man in every five families will be in khaki when the Army has taken its proportion of those under twenty-eight still awaiting registration. A British Official Wireless message states that considerable speculation in the newspapers as to the dates on which the age groups above twentyseven will be registered and called up for national service has caused the Ministry of Labour and National Service to issue a warning that no reliance should be placed on unofficial statements implying that even tentative decisions on these matters, have been made.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1940, Page 8
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155BRITISH ARMY Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1940, Page 8
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