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From: (Patricia Downes)
Subject: Re: WW1 conscription
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 22:29:26 GMT
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On Tue, 04 May 2004 14:48:52 GMT, "P Mayberry" <>
wrote:
>
>> RM: I thought the majority of volunteers in Australia ~were~
>> Catholics,
>
>I thought that the Protestants would have outnumbered the Catholics in the
>AIF during WW1.
>
>Although it might be interesting to know the percentages of those who
>enlisted against the total numbers available for each religion to enlist.
>
From the Official Medical History of the War Vol 3:
Religion Total (percentages in brackets)
C of E 162 814 (49.2)
Pres. 49 631 (15.0)
Meth. 33 706 (10.2)
R.C. 63 705 (19.3)
Other 20 914 (6.3)
Total 330 770 (100.0)

From Vine Hall: Tracing Your Ancestors in Australia:
1901 census (population percentages by religion)
NSW Vic Qld SA
C of E 46.58 35.79 37.50 30.26
Pres. 9.91 16.16 11.70 5.19
Meth 10.29 15.22 9.49 25.49
R.C. 25.96 22.26 24.53 14.76
Lutheran 0.55 1.17 5.19 7.39
Other 6.71 9.4 11.59 16.91
You can look at the other states for yourselves, but well over half of
the AIF came from NSW and Victoria.

And while we are at it
Age on enlistment in AIF (from Medical History):
Under 21 72 619 (22.0)
21-30 186 731 (56.5)
31-40 56 076 (17.0)
41+ and other 15 344 (4.5)

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Trish Downes

Canberra ACT Australia

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