Age ceiling for war

[mysticalmac]

Does anyone know if there was a certain age limit for ww1 if so what would it be roughly?

Allan

[WhiteWolf]

Does anyone know if there was a certain age limit for ww1 if so what would it be roughly?

Allan

Hi Allen

there is a piece in "Call to Arms" that states that the New Armies put a call out for exNCO's up to 45 and WO's upto 50.

not sure if this was across the board

Andy

[HarryBettsMCDCM]

I have an advertisement dated 1917 from the Peterboro' Advertiser,calling for over Military Aged Persons to volunteer for Home Service in the ASC RGA,etc I will post it when like McArthur I return...

There are however many examples of men in their 60's & even 70s serving @ the Front,in the Ranks or as NCOs{which a search of the forum will bring up.}

[Joan and Terry]

Does anyone know if there was a certain age limit for ww1 if so what would it be roughly?

Allan

At the start of the war,there was an upper and lower age limit,but that rule did not last long,you have only to read certain accounts of young lads being told to go out and come back again with a different age,also a classic case of Henry Webber who was turned down on several occasions,finally managed to join up and was killed in action on 21/7/1916 aged 68 and is buried in the Dartmoor cemetery Becordel Becourt,we paid a visit to his grave on 1st July this year.I have been told that are men even older than H.Webber who served.

Joan

[MACRAE]

I have an advertisement dated 1917 from the Peterboro' Advertiser,calling for over Military Aged Persons to volunteer for Home Service in the ASC RGA,etc I will post it when like McArthur I return...

There are however many examples of men in their 60's & even 70s serving @ the Front,in the Ranks or as NCOs{which a search of the forum will bring up.}

You telling me men of 70 was serving at the front line that is terrible i wonder how those women whom thrust white feathers into you men's hands felt after the war when the final roll call was held. I hope the never had a proper sleep for the rest of there life.

D

[HarryBettsMCDCM]

You telling me men of 70 was serving at the front line that is terrible i wonder how those women whom thrust white feathers into you men's hands felt after the war when the final roll call was held. I hope the never had a proper sleep for the rest of there lives!

7206 William J.Blythe,was born in April 1858,A Plasterer;he served in Afghanistan in 1878~80 with 30th Foot;as a signaller L/Sgt,he was recalled from the Reserve/Volunteered for WW1 Service in 1914,serving in France as a Sergeant with the East Lancashire Regt from July 1915.He transferred to the RAF in October 1918 & was discharged unfit for further Military Service on 11:11:18;being granted a RAF SWB.he was aged 60 7/12.

He is one of a Handful of such OAP ORs whose Medals I am pleased to be custodian of.

[SiegeGunner]

Lt Commander Henry Gartside-Tipping, aged 67, was killed when his vessel, HM Armed Yacht Sanda was sunk off Zeebrugge by a German coastal battery in September 1915. He is commemorated on the Nieuport memorial. His wife Mary served with the Women's Emergency Corps in France and was shot dead by a deranged French soldier in March 1917.