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There were 408 volunteers who enlisted from Bridgnorth in the first five month of 1914, according to the Bridgnorth Journal's front page, published 26th December 1914. According to Omm's analysis Shropshire accounted for 0.6% of the national population available to enlist based on the 1911 Census, however 0.7% of Salopians joined the forces during the First World War.