This is a public service film produced for the British government, discussing how interesting and useful National Service -- the British peacetime draft -- will be. Learn how to march! Visit Germany! Use a tank to demolish a house! All skills, we are informed, that will be useful in defending the Commonwealth and, it is implied, in civilian life after your service.
National service was never popular in Great Britain, no more than the Draft was in the United States. It was abolished in the early 1960s. In the meantime, films like this were seen as needful propaganda to explain why it was necessary. The rest of it is a montage of training and field exercises, a mix of new and stock war footage.
National service was never popular in Great Britain, no more than the Draft was in the United States. It was abolished in the early 1960s. In the meantime, films like this were seen as needful propaganda to explain why it was necessary. The rest of it is a montage of training and field exercises, a mix of new and stock war footage.
