Military
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(381)1916
January
February
- 10
- Military Service Act comes into forceOn 10 February 1916 the British Military Service Act came into force. Single men had three weeks to come forward or to apply for exemption from conscription.
- Serbian army assembled on CorfuIn February 1916 most of the surviving Serbian army assembled on Corfu. The French fed and clothed the soldiers, and the staff formed them into new divisions.
- 16
- Montenegrin soldiers on CorfuIn mid-February 1916 Montenegrin soldiers who had not laid down their arms reached Corfu. They were a handful, as King Nicholas's army had already dispersed.
- War Office takes over air defenceOn 16 February 1916 the air defence of London passed from the Admiralty to Field Marshal John French, and soon after that of the whole country.
- War Office takes over the Mesopotamian campaignIn mid-February 1916 control of operations in Mesopotamia passed from the Government of India and the India Office to the War Office in London.
- 21
- Dismissal of Henry SclaterOn 21 February 1916 Gen. Henry Sclater ceased to be Adjutant-General of the British Army. His place at the War Office was taken by Nevil Macready.
- Macready leaves the BEF staffOn 21 February 1916 General Nevil Macready ceased to be Adjutant-General of the BEF. He had handled its manpower since the first days of the war in France.
- 22
- Fowke becomes adjutant-general of the BEFOn 22 February 1916 Gen. George Fowke, until then Engineer-in-Chief, became adjutant-general of the BEF, in charge of personnel in Haig's army to the war's end.
- Macready appointed Adjutant-GeneralOn 22 February 1916 General Nevil Macready became Adjutant-General of the British Army. At the War Office his main task was to find men for the front.