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10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg

German writer and Nobel laureate Günter Grass was an assistant tank gunner with the division after having been conscripted into the Waffen-SS at the age of 17 in November 1944.

Albie Roles

Roles was not conscripted during the war because his employment, making engines for torpedo boats at Parsons on the Town Quay, was a reserved occupation.

Alojz Mahek

However, on July 15, 1914, with the start of the First World War, all Serbian clubs ceased their activities, and most players were conscripted to the Serbian Army.

Amiram Barkai

At the age of 18 Amiram was conscripted into the Israeli Air Force and was accepted to the pilots training program.

B. B. Janz

Janz was also asked by the Mennonite Brethren Church to negotiate the release of men who had been conscripted into the Red Army.

Battle of Craonne

The young French conscripted soldiers were called "Marie-Louises" (after Napoleon's second wife) because Marie-Louise signed the order for their conscription in Napoleon's absence.

Battle of the Imjin River

The British soldiers were a mixture of regular soldiers, reservists and conscripted National servicemen.

CthulhuTech

All of the oceans and most of the coasts of the world are sparsely controlled by the Esoteric Order of Dagon, who use sea beasts, monstrous Deep Ones and Hybrid soldiers, brainwashed or conscripted humans, and their own brand of oceanic mecha in their search for R'lyeh, the lost underwater city of Cthulhu.

Daemyung Sangmu

This team is made up of several players currently serving their two year military service and therefore were are unable to maintain practice and playing with their respective clubs, while conscripted.

Dragon Man

At one point, Dragon Man had been placed in the Negative Zone, and like most of the other prisoners, was conscripted into service when Blastaar attacked the prison.

Dresdner Sezession

Those artists who failed to flee Europe found themselves conscripted to the front lines and many important artist such as Franz Marc and August Macke were killed in the trenches.

Education in Israel

After secondary education, students are generally conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), but may request an extension of the conscription date to study at a pre-service Mechina, or in a college or university.

Etablissements Borel

The factory, located at Mourmelon was temporarily forced to close when the outbreak of World War I saw most of its workers conscripted into the army, but Borel re-opened in November 1915 to produce military aircraft for France under licence from other manufacturers including Caudron, Nieuport and SPAD.

Fritz Dietrich

He was conscripted into the army, and died (missing) on the eastern front in the area around Heiligenbeil.

Heinrich Albertz

As a member of the Confessing Church he opposed the Nazis, was arrested several times and conscripted into the Wehrmacht in 1941.

Helmut Thielicke

Thielicke was conscripted, but nine months later he was able to take over a church in Ravensburg with the help of regional bishop Theophil Wurm.

Henry Berry Lowrie

Several Lowrie cousins, excluded from military service because they were free men of color (also called free blacks), had been conscripted to help build Fort Fisher, near Wilmington, North Carolina.

Herbert Ehrenberg

Ehrenberg was born in Kollnischken, East Prussia (today Kolniszki, Poland) and visited school (Staatliche Kantschule) in Goldap until 1943, when he was conscripted to the German Army and became a prisoner of war.

Hōdai Yamazaki

Hōdai was conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army 1941 and, and in 1943 was blinded in his right eye during combat; his left eye was also badly affected.

Jakob Walter

In 1806, Walter and his brother were conscripted into the regiment of Romig and served in the campaign of 1806-1807 in Poland, as part of King Jérôme’s contribution to the Grande Armée.

Julius Wechselberg

Wechselberg was born in Barmen in the Rhine Province of the Kingdom of Prussia on March 9, 1838, and came to Wisconsin with his parents in 1848 (his father did not want his sons to be conscripted into the Prussian Army).

Karl Kilbom

In 1907, Kilbom was conscripted to do military service in the Swedish Navy and he soon found himself on the navy base of Skeppsholmen in Stockholm, and stationed on the battleship Svea.

Lev Leshchenko

Between 1960 and 1959, Leshchenko worked as a stage helper at the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre, and before being conscripted into the army in 1961, he worked as an adjuster at a precision measuring instrument factory.

Mechanised Transport Corps

It was eventually recognised by the Ministry of War Transport and its members were conscripted and received pay.

Milet Andrejevic

As a teen he lived through the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia and was eventually conscripted into Tito's army at the end of World War II.

Patrick Schreiber

Schreiber graduated from Romain-Rolland-Gymnasium in 1998 and was subsequently conscripted into the German armed forces, serving in Bayreuth, Holzdorf and Dresden until 1999.

Professional ice hockey

This was because all elite athletes in the Soviet Union were conscripted into the Red Army, Red Air Force or other national institutions.

Soviet deportations from Estonia

Following the German attack against the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in early July, 33,000 Estonian men were conscripted into the Soviet Army.

Szymon Koszyk

He was conscripted to the German army in 1914, he fought in the Battle of Verdun and was severely wounded.

Trevor Meredith

He was conscripted into the British Army at the age of 17, and was playing semi-professional football for Kidderminster Harriers when he was scouted by Burnley.

Wilhelm Schneemelcher

In 1939 he was conscripted into the Wehrmacht, and after the war he was a village pastor in Stöckheim near Northeim.

William Robert Eshelman

As a conscientious objector during World War II, he was conscripted into the Civilian Public Service at Camp 56 (Camp Angel) in Oregon.

Willy Coppens

Coppens was born in Watermael-Boitsfort, near Brussels and was conscripted into the army in 1912, to serve with the Premiere Regiment Grenadiers.

Wolfgang Altenburg

Altenburg was born in Schneidemühl, Posen-West Prussia (today Piła, Poland) and was conscripted as a Marinehelfer (Navy aide) in 1944 serving at Heligoland.

Zlatko Papec

Papec appeared in 57 league matches for Lokomotiva in the period from 1952 to 1955, when he was conscripted and then served the compulsory military service in the Yugoslav Navy.


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