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The Impact of War on Scottish Society
- Recruitment
- Reasons
- adventure/excitement
- anti-German
propaganda
- patriotism
- peer
pressure
- Pals Battalions
- Hearts of Midlothian Football Club
- McCrae's Battalion (16th Royal Scots)
- McCrae's Battalion (16th Royal Scots)
- discouraged
once impact on
communities
became clear
- Hearts of Midlothian Football Club
- fear of unemployment/pressured by employers
- over by
Christmas
- guilt
(white
feather)
- protect
family
- martial
tradition
- kilts
distinguishable
- kilts
distinguishable
- adventure/excitement
- British Expeditionary Force too small
- approx. 100,000 men
- Kitchener asked for volunteers
- 19 - 35
- by the
end of
Aug. 1914
20,000
men from
Glasgow
alone
- 19 - 35
- approx. 100,000 men
- Reasons
- Conscription
- Jan
1916
- single men 18 - 41
- exemptions
- essential wartime employment
- medically unfit
- religious ministers
- conscientious objectors
- married
men
- extended to them in may 1916
- extended to them in may 1916
- essential wartime employment
- single men 18 - 41
- in 1918 age
raised to 51
- volunteers not enough to
keep up with casualties
- Jan
1916
- Conscientious
Objectors
- Alternatives
- non -
combatant
roles
- stretcher bearer etc.
- stretcher bearer etc.
- non -
combatant
roles
- Absolutists
- refused
to fight
at all
- anger over
wasted
labour in jail
- military
camps
- Dyce, near Aberdeen
- 250 men
- appalling conditions
- hard labour in a granite
quarry, poor living conditions
- hard labour in a granite
quarry, poor living conditions
- one man died from pneumonia
- 250 men
- Dyce, near Aberdeen
- military
camps
- anger over
wasted
labour in jail
- refused
to fight
at all
- Reasons
- pacifists
- political
- Germany
was not
their
enemy
- Germany
was not
their
enemy
- religous
- Quakers,
Jehovah
Witnesses
etc.
- Quakers,
Jehovah
Witnesses
etc.
- pacifists
- The No -
Conscription
Fellowship
- believed that it was a violation of civil liberties
- believed that it was a violation of civil liberties
- military
tribunals
- Alternatives
- Women
- Dr Elsie Inglis
set up field
hospitals
- International
Congress of
Women in
Hague
- Chrystal
Macmillan
- marked the foundation of the
Women's International League for
Peace & Freedom - still exists today
- marked the foundation of the
Women's International League for
Peace & Freedom - still exists today
- Chrystal
Macmillan
- Munitions
Factory in
Gretna
- 9000
women
worked
there
- 9000
women
worked
there
- worked as
long as 12
hour shifts
in some
factories in
Glasgow
- Rent Strikes
- refused to pay
increased rent
- government
intervened
- rate fixed
at 1914
rate
unless
properties
were
improved
- rate fixed
at 1914
rate
unless
properties
were
improved
- refused to pay
increased rent
- Dr Elsie Inglis
set up field
hospitals
- DORA
- no
photos
of
military
bases
- spying
- spying
- beer
watered
down
- pub hours
regulated
- needed everyone to help war effort
- no drunks
- no drunks
- needed everyone to help war effort
- pub hours
regulated
- church bells
don't ring
- no
fireworks
- could be
signalling
- could be
signalling
- no
fireworks
- not
allowed to
give
bread to
horses or
chickens
- rationing
- rationing
- Gov.
could take
over any
factory
- war effort
munitions etc.
- war effort
munitions etc.
- censorship
- moral
& spies
- moral
& spies
- no binoculars
- spying
- spying
- no
trespassing
on railway
lines
- essential for transporting
stuff around Britian
- could try and sabotage
- could try and sabotage
- essential for transporting
stuff around Britian
- no
photos
of
military
bases
- Remembrance &
Commemoration
- monuments
everywhere
- Hearts, Haymarket
Edinburgh
- Hearts, Haymarket
Edinburgh
- memorial museum
- Edinburgh
Castle
- Scots
wanted
own
memorial
- officially
opened in
1928
- officially
opened in
1928
- Scots
wanted
own
memorial
- Edinburgh
Castle
- minutes
silence
began in
Nov. 1919
- poetry - John
Buchan et al
- many returned
injured,
physically &
mentally
- monuments
everywhere
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