A WEBINAR showcasing the progress of the Redditch Military Service Tribunal Project in the First World War will take place next week.
The project has worked with volunteers to transcribe the registers of the local Redditch Tribunal and research the lives of the men who were called for service.
The volunteer team have also been working hard to research the men who applied for exemption both under the Derby Scheme and later Conscription at the Military Service Tribunals between 1915 and 1918.
After the initial surge of interest in 1914, the numbers of men volunteering to fight in World War I dropped.
The Derby Scheme of 1915 listed all the men who were both willing and eligible to fight, and in 1916 conscription was introduced to ‘call-up’ all men between 18 and 41 to fight.