100 years since Ballarat answered the call

By Neil Leckie
Updated August 14 2014 - 3:58pm, first published 12:56pm
100 years since Ballarat answered the call
100 years since Ballarat answered the call

In 1911 Compulsory Military Training was instituted in Australia for all boys born in 1894, unless they had been given an exemption from training. The following year all boys aged 12 to 17 began their Compulsory Military Training. The aim for this training was to have a militia strength of 80,000 men by 1916. In mid-1912 the militia was reformed with Ballarat East being allocated the 70th Infantry and Ballarat West being allocated the 71st Infantry.

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