Talk:Snowball marches

Queries raised

 * what were these initial disappointing recruitment numbers? questioned by User:CJSC 17 May 2007
 * who was Holman? questioned by User:CJSC 17 May 2007
 * he was the leader of the Government of the State of NSW --Golden Wattle talk 06:26, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * was this true or was he making excuses for poor NSW recruiting numbers? questioned by User:CJSC 17 May 2007
 * I suspect that it was indeed true but I am surprised that the practice was limited to NSW and should not have accounted for the difference in recruitment rates between states --Golden Wattle talk 06:26, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * any after-effects or other retrospective analysis? what happened after 1916? questioned by User:CJSC 17 May 2007
 * Not much available - what is curious to me is that it is a NSW phenomenon --Golden Wattle talk 06:26, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Enlistment rates
Really needs to be a subject of a separate article with links to the conscription debates and associated plebiscites, exemption courts when conscription was introduced, ....

However, here is a table which compares rates for key periods drawn from

A number of issues raised by the figures - differences between the states are quite significant - recruitment during WW1 was state based. Need to work out how to refer to without original reseearch - ie check what those who have written on WW1 recruitment have said.--Golden Wattle talk 23:56, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

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