Good evening all, (if you are in the UK), presumably good day if you are elsewhere .... Looking at my grandfathers WW1 Attestation papers from 1915 I see that question 10 asks if he received "a Notice" and understood it and who he received it from. My first thought was whether they were call-up papers but this was 1915 prior to conscription and he had no previous military service so he couldn't have been in the reserves. This appears to be a standard sort of form as we have found it used for pre-war enlistment as well. Can any military history buff tell me what the "Notice" would have been please? Regards, Bob

Bob There was a form of conscription in place in 1915, prior to the Military Act of 1916. It was known as the "Derby Scheme". I suspect your man's "notice" was referring to that. Details are available at http://www.1914-1918.net/derbyscheme.html Regards Nigel Osborne