Enlisting
Dossier/ Fact file
Families
- Mothers would be by themselves if father and son went off to war
- Receiving a telegram would be terrifying and heartbreaking
- Fathers and sons would write letters to their families
- Not receiving letters from loved ones would be disappointing and most likely make families anxious and stressed
- Making the decision for enlisting would be hard
- If not enlisted, you received a white feather to show you’re a coward
- You would get picked on by citizens
- Going through training before war would have terrible
- Going through war without training would be challenging as some may have never handled a gun before
- If soldiers didn’t meet the standards to be in war they couldn’t help fight for the country
- Enlisting would be a bit different for them
- Seeing injured soldiers every day would be depressing
- Women weren’t allowed to enlist
- What was it like to enlist as nurses
- Promoting enlisting
- Some governments had to build an army from nothing
- They had posters
- Propaganda was based on countries view on each other