Ideas 53:59 War-Torn: Conscription 1917 When World War One started, much of Canada reflexively felt obliged to participate. Some even say that the Great War turned Canada into a true nation.

300,000 Irish men voluntarily joined the British army during World War I to fight against German imperialism but Ireland was dead set against the imposition of conscription.

Historians and international World War I experts are gathering at Les Invalides monument in Paris on Friday to debate Quebec’s role in the conflict, notably the unrest that conscriptions efforts ...

World War One began almost by accident and ended just as strangely. ... is forced to bring in conscription after only 73,000 people volunteer for the Western Front.

The WRNS, having been disbanded at the end of the First World War, were reformed in April 1939. WRNS were posted to every home and overseas naval unit. There were 72,000 serving WRNS in 1945.