Services and Regiments – Buxton Casualties (WW2)
Only Fourteen of the casualties on the WW2 Memorials of Buxton and its surrounding area were enlisted with the local Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby) Regiment.
However, unlike World War 1, when conscription was only introduced in 1916, on the day Britain declared war on Germany, 3rd September 1939, Parliament immediately passed a more wide-reaching measure.
The National Service (Armed Forces) Act imposed conscription on all males aged between 18 and 41 who had to register for service. Those medically unfit were exempted, as were others in key industries and jobs such as baking, farming, medicine, and engineering. 
…. the process of Registration and Conscription in 1939.
By the end of 1939 more than 1.5 million men had been conscripted to join the British armed forces. Of those, just over 1.1 million went to the Army and the rest were split between the Royal Navy and the RAF. As a result, and unlike WW1, men and women had less choice in which Regiment they served.
[N.B. Buxton Town Cemetery contains the graves of 7 Canadian and 3 New Zealand airmen who died in the area and were buried in the Cemetery.]
