Service in WW1 - 1914 - 1918 (General)
My grandfather who was born in 1878 who was 36 at the opening of WW1, enlisted in 1915 but was not mobilised until July 1917.
He was a carpenter with 566 Wks Coy Royal Engineers.
Why would there have been such a gap between enlistment & mobilisation?
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