In answer to numerous inquiries, the President of the Board of Agriculture announces that certain classes of skilled agricultural workers have been starred in connection with the National Register.
These will in no case be enlisted for immediate service with the colours, even if they offer themselves for that purpose, but they can, if they wish, be attested, passed into Section B, Army Reserve Group, and returned to their civil employment.
A man accepted on these conditions will be entitled to wear a khaki armlet.
If any starred man has been inadvertently enlisted for immediate service the employer at once should notify the County War Agricultural Committee, and write to the War Office, who have undertaken to make every effort to return him to civil occupation.
If these men are really indispensable from the national point of view, Lord Selborne strongly advises them not to enlist for immediate service. This also applies to farmers of military age who desire to join. They should exercise the option of being attested and passed into the reserve.
