Compulsory enlistment into national or military service

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Hundred Years' War: surgeons and craftsmen of surgical instruments being forced to go with the English army as part of the 1415 invasion of France. Gouache painting by A. Forestier, 1913.

French conscripts being put through physical exercises. Colour process print after A. Guilaume, 1896.

Italian families gather on the steps of Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo, to greet men who are returning home after military service. Engraving by A. Danse, 1882, after Frank W.W. Topham, 1879.

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Hundred Years' War: surgeons and craftsmen of surgical instruments being forced to go with the English army as part of the 1415 invasion of France. Gouache painting by A. Forestier, 1913.

French conscripts being put through physical exercises. Colour process print after A. Guilaume, 1896.

Italian families gather on the steps of Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo, to greet men who are returning home after military service. Engraving by A. Danse, 1882, after Frank W.W. Topham, 1879.