Appendix C - Table 1

Appointments and Enlistments by Months, 1914-1920

1914

		1914
	Officers	N/S	OR
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August	1,117	9	20,838
September	454	95	9,531
October	132	10	5,152
November	449	2	13,015
December	290	2	8,048
Total	2,442	118	56,584
		59,144

1915

		1915
	Officers	N/S	OR
January	324	43	9,363
February	460	43	8,211
March	318	41	9,002
April	321	225	7,094
May	310	53	7,539
June	436	49	10,465
July	465	75	14,819
August	494	16	17,357
September	464	29	16,229
October	427	40	12,410
November	711	29	17,282
December	1,102	32	22,581
Total	5,832	675	152,352
		158,859

1916

		1916
	Officers	N/S	OR
January	1,002	108	28,185
February	1,024	75	26,638
March	932	21	33,960
April	681	88	20,200
May	735	52	14,572
June	502	58	10,059
July	364	64	7,961
August	319	73	6,597
September	318	22	5,717
October	255	27	5,262
November	259	49	5,540
December	209	61	4,930
Total	6,600	698	169,621
		176,919

1917

		1917
	Officers	N/S	OR
January	238	66	6,690
February	186	19	5,311
March	143	159	4,886
April	143	126	4,492
May	152	166	6,211
June	89	42	5,298
July	93	38	3,515
August	94	18	2,902
September	102	11	3,559
October	108	36	4,814
November	84	83	9,284
December	90	46	4,317
Total	1,522	810	61,279
		63,611

1918

		1918*
	Officers	N/S	OR
January	194	44	19,099
February	105	68	8,910
March	67	41	9,505
April	216	109	14,436
May	422	31	38,336
June	642	71	24,041
July	173	73	17,305
August	91	27	10,289
September	95	16	5,441
October	178	9	24,506
November	68	15	1,375
December	25	4	394
Total	2,276	508	173,637
		176,421

Note: Nicholson gives the total for Nursing Sisters as 528 and Other Ranks as 153,637. The table above provides the correct addition of all of the individual entries.

1919

		1919
	Officers	N/S	OR
January	20	4	710
February	22	15	601
March	10	1	730
April	10		478
May	15	1	391
June	5	2	413
July		2	320
August	2		184
September			326
October	4		218
November			114
December			56
Total	88	25	4,541
		4,654

Note: Nicholson gives the total for for the year as 4,554 instead of the correct 4,654.

1920

		1920
	Officers	N/S	OR
January			53
February	1		27
March	1		8
April			13
May			5
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Total	2	-	106
		108

Total

		Totals
	Officers	N/S	OR
Total	18,762	2,834	618,120
		639,716

* 1918 figures include 142,588 men enlisted under the provisions of the Military Service Act

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