"1: The Military Service BILL 1916 was introduced to Parliament on the 27th January 1916 it became the Military Service Act 1916 on 2nd March, 1916 and became Law THEN - Not in January _ you see Jim those are the facts of the matter - not your ill-informed ramblings - see here - Military Service Act 1916"

Please account for the recruitment figures below:

                   Volunteers Conscripts Total
January 1916       49,411    16,554    65,965
February 1916       18,738    79,891    98,629
March 1916          15,876    113,617   129,493
April 1916          15,119    91,789    106,908

Can you suggest why, before the act was passed, some 210,000 men had been conscripted.