1915 propaganda scheme to enlist soldiers in the United Kingdom
See also: Recruitment to the British Army during World War I
Derby Scheme poster of November 1915
The Derby Scheme was introduced during World War I in Britain in the autumn of 1915 by Herbert Kitchener's new Director General of Recruiting, Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby (1865–1948) after which it was named.
It used strong pressure tactics to try to pressure men regarded as eligible to serve in the military to voluntarily enlist. In spite of persuading nearly 2/3 of single men and almost half of married to do so, wartime manpower needs were sufficiently great that by 1916 the Military Service Act would be passed instituting compulsory conscription.
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were volunteers until January 1916, when men were recruited under the DerbyScheme and as conscripts following the Military Service Act 1916. From July...
was offered three choices: enlist at once, attest at once - under the DerbyScheme, or on 2 March 1916, be automatically deemed to have enlisted. In May...
provided a new law for public organisations in Wales to have bilingual schemes, which would be supervised by the Welsh Language Board. Some private sector...
voluntary enlistment, and latterly a kind of moral conscription called the DerbyScheme. The conscription issue divided the Liberal Party including the Cabinet...
the process of conscription. Tribunals were published as part of the DerbyScheme in 1915, but were continued on a statutory basis by the Military Service...
of wartime production. He also chaired the committee overseeing the DerbyScheme for recruitment in the Midlands, and sat on the conscription appeals...
of the DerbyScheme (originally planned for 30 November); although 2,950,514 men had attested, enlisted or tried to enlist during the scheme, a further...
campaign for the army and spoke at rallies, particularly on behalf of the DerbyScheme. Formby was always worried that his son George would watch him on stage...
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Commander-in-Chief), and American intervention. A chapter on Britain covers the Derbyscheme and conscription, the Press and Lloyd George becoming Prime Minister...
and during World War I, joined the Artists Rifles regiment under the DerbyScheme. He was posted to France in November 1916 and fought in the Second Battle...
raised again until 1791. Two schemes were then proposed by rival groups, one from Swarkestone to Derby, and the other from Derby to the Trent and Mersey Canal...
stepson (Henry VII), who later made him Earl of Derby. Margaret was then styled "Countess of Richmond and Derby". She was invested as a Lady of the Order of...
beat Hughes on points in November. In 1917 he was called up under the DerbyScheme and served as a private in the Army Service Corps until being medically...
those killed or injured in the fighting, so a voluntary system, the DerbyScheme, was instituted, by which men could "attest" that they were willing to...
near Derby. The scheme operated successfully from 1949 to 1965 and was important for the economic development of the towns of Wyndham and Derby as well...
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potential problem due to his German background, he enlisted under the DerbyScheme and joined the 31st battalion of the Middlesex Regiment in 1917 at the...
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