War Work Volunteers' Notice, 29th June 1918

“WAR WORK VOLUNTEERS.

“MEN UNDER CALL MAY ENROL TILL JULY 6th.

“NEW ACT CONCESSIONS.

“The Ministry of National Service has modified the Order that a man cannot be enrolled as a war volunteer or apply for enrolment as a war agricultural volunteer if he is actually under call for military service.

“Men of the new military age [up to 51] who may be under call may enrol up to and including July 6th, so long as they do so on or before the actual date on which they are due to report for military service.

“No man can be enrolled until he has been accepted by employer to fill a definite vacancy for which the employment of a volunteer is authorised.

“If a man under call to report for military service on or before July 6th is enrolled, he should return his calling-up notice to the office of issue, endorsed by an official of the Exchange. His calling-up notice will then be suspended for fourteen clays, to enable him obtain to a certificate of protection.

“A man who wishes to enrol as a war agricultural volunteer should proceed in the same way, but he can apply either to an Employment Exchange or an Agricultural Executive Committee.

“Calling up notices are not to issued men of the new military age until ten days after the date on which they are due to report for medical examination. The men, after their medical examination, can thus offer themselves for enrolment under the war work volunteer scheme or the war agricultural volunteer scheme before receiving a calling-up notice for military service.

“No man who has been finally refused exemption by a tribunal is eligible for protection either as a war work volunteer or as a war agricultural volunteer.”

'Nottingham Evening Post', 29th June 1918.