Attesting Collection

Prize-Winning Class Date: 1950

The compleat Angler (Derby Scheme)
Caricature of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith attempting to catch fish, representing men of age able to fight in WW1. The fish in the net represent married men who had already volunteered (attested)

Bystander cover - Derby scheme attesting Bairnsfather
Front cover of The Bystander magazine featuring an illustration by Fred Buchanan which is a pastiche of Bruce Bairnsfathers famous The Better Ole cartoon (in the same magazine)

Bystander cover-Derby scheme
An illustration showing the number of men attested in 1916 for the volunteer (Derby) scheme to encourage military recruitment

London recruits at Southwark Town Hall, WW1
Crowds of men anxious to attest under the Derby scheme, crowded into the corridors of Southwark Town Hall in December 1915

Derby recruiters sleeping at a recruiting office, WW1
Worn out Derby recruiters snatching some sleep at their offices after a busy night dealing with the final rush of recruits under Lord Derbys group system

A Derby night
Illustration by S. Begg showing a long queue of men lining up to enlist. Lord Derby, Director General of Recruiting in 1916 introduced the Derby scheme which encouraged men from the same offices or

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