The Pros And Cons Of Conscription

What is conscription? Conscription was compulsory enlistment for military training and . This process to men who had to leave their friends and family and train and fight in the without a choice. However, women were also conscripted for auxiliary services e.g. nursing. This was usually as a result of the lack of in a country’s military. If the men were well and had the ability to fight and train, they conscripted.

Why was conscription introduced?
The Australian believed the nation needed to strongly maintain its forces during World War 1. This was especially from pressure to guarantee that
With the of the first world war, the number of people volunteering to enlist for the Australian Imperial Force skyrocketed, climbing so high that officers had to turn people away. Nevertheless, the increasing (soldiers being killed or injured) on the Western Front became known to the people of Australia and as no to war seemed soon, the number of men to fight dropped significantly. Australians to grasp that this war was not going to be a quick and triumphant . By , the AIF confronted a shortage of
The was reacted to just as furiously, with the most well known anti-conscription activist being the Archbishop of Melbourne, Dr Daniel Mannix. On 20 December , the nation again voted “No” to conscription, an even larger majority this time. Australia, South , and India were the only countries who conscript men during the first World War. The defeat of the second referendum the issue of conscription for the rest of World War