When the war began, men were called up for only one month's additional training.

"When our young men get called up for the army, most don't pass the physical."

Only young men from among the country's five million whites are called up for compulsory service.

They spoke once about the war, and the driver told him that almost every able-bodied man in the district had been called up.

But all young men born in 1903 were being called up for the military service.

Now even old men and boys of 14 and 15 are being called up into the Volkssturin.

As for the land army, 60,000 men have been called up since the introduction of compulsory military service.

During the middle years of the war, three men are called up to serve in the British Army.

When the First World War began in 1914, many men were called up for military service, including all the teachers.

In practice, men over 27 were seldom called up.