Parliament raised the minimum age for military service to 18, following more than 100 countries that have signed an international treaty to bar child soldiers.

Following the outbreak of the war, Australia began raising an all volunteer force for overseas service almost immediately.

He raised two companies for service during the Boer War.

And although four or five servers might have been on the floor, at times not one seemed to notice hands raised for service.

From a pool of approximately 27 million, the draft raised 2,215,000 men for military service during the Vietnam era.

In the following year he was commissioned to raise mariners for service against the king's enemies.

Congress last year raised the age limit for service on the Joint Chiefs to 64 from 62.

It has raised charges for basic monthly service, which Government regulators had always kept artificially low.

Wheeler used his own money and influence to raise a company of local volunteers for service in the Civil War.

A second battalion, 2/11th Battalion, was raised for service overseas in 1939.