I think it is true, as in WW2 if a family had one brother in the war, and another brother at home, then the brother at home was excempt, they did not want all the sons of a family to be in the war - I think "Saving Private Ryan" is about rescuing one brother of the war when another had died. Not sure they care anymore. delilah ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Hatridge" <James.Hatridge@gmx.de> To: <greatwar@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 12:49 PM Subject: Re: [GREATWAR] agricultural workers and exemption from WW1 service. | HI Sue et al.. | On Monday 30 October 2006 23:33, Laffey wrote: | > Hello | > | > I wonder if someone could help me by letting me know if the statement below | > is true. If not, what would the truth be? | > | > Thanks | > | > Sue Laffey | > | > Although not a reserve occupation, as in World War Two, agricultural | > workers could gain an exemption from military service in the Great War. | | Don't know about WWI, but in WWII my father-in-law was let out of the German | Army in 1942 when his father died and he had to take over the farm. | | JIM | -- | Jim Hatridge | Here I stand. I can do no other. | Linux User #88484 | ------------------------------------------------------ | WartHog Bulletin | Info about new German Stamps | http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/bulletin/index.php | | Viel Feind -- Viel Ehr' | Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection | http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/collection/index.php | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
I am researching the men of my home town who died in WW1 and one family had nine boys and eight of them fought in the Great War of which two were killed. No one in the family today knows why the ninth never went. His mother had a shop but it's unlikely that was the reason. Perhaps he was physically unfit. He was forty in 1914 and the second oldest son so his age wasn't the reason either. Their mother received a letter from Buckingham Palace congratulating her on "having contributed in so full a measure to the great cause for which all the people of the British Empire are so bravely fighting." Peter