Your country NEEDS You! How millions were sent to fight in WWI and WWII after conscription was introduced - as Army chief issues rallying call to 'mobilise the nation' in face of Russian threat

By the time the Great War came to an end in 1918, some 2.5million men had been forced by law to serve, and 800,000 lost their lives in the fighting. Above: Men enlisting in January 1916.

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