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Recruits enlisting at Carmarthen


Rerun57

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I would be grateful if anyone could tell me where men would have enlisted in Carmarthen in April 1917. I think that these would have been reservists coming of age and others in response to call up papers. 

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Recruiting at the beginning of the war was at the Barracks in Carmarthen.

I don't know if it was different by 1917.

Steve John's book "Carmarthen in the Great War" probably has the answer for you in it.

 

Edit: Newspaper reports from about 1916 refer to the recruiting office in Lammas Street, which ends about a quarter of a mile from the barracks. I thought perhaps they referred to the same place, but one report (28/1/1916) states that men ..." marched from the barracks to the recruiting office in Lammas-street...". So, clearly, they were two separate places.

Edited by Dai Bach y Sowldiwr
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