'Conscripts' taste life in the RGLI 100 years ago
CADETS from around the island were 'conscripted' into the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry yesterday, as part of a celebration marking the centenary of its founding.
The event saw children who are members of the Army Cadet Force, Elizabeth College Cadet Force, Air Cadets and Sea Cadets taking part in five different lessons, which were hosted and run by the Guernsey Military History Company, and based on activities soldiers might well have had to go through at the time of the First World War.
Upon the founding of the regiment 100 years ago, men from around the island were called up with conscription letters, which is how Deborah Doherty, detachment commander for the Guernsey ACF, said she had invited Sunday's 'trainees'.
'We found a copy of the conscription letter online, and made a mocked up one, which we sent to all of the cadets and they had to bring them along this morning to sign in,' she said.
