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In this special edition of Farming Today This Week, marking 100 years since the beginning of World War One, Sybil Ruscoe discovers what impact war in France had on farming communities in Britain.
By the time conscription was introduced in 1916, the War Office faced a massive dilemma. They were desperate for men at the front but still needed to produce food for the troops, and the domestic population. What should they do with the farmers? Send them to war, or leave them on the land?
Farming was a reserved occupation but the criteria was strict. Across the country 60,000 agricultural labourers were called up and Military Service Tribunals were held to decide who could stay, and who would go.
In Wiltshire many original records still survive. Sybil uses the archives to find out what happened to two men; 19-year-old Robert Pegler and a ploughman called Jim Hunt, who were among thousands to apply for military exemption.
In a journey that takes Sybil back to the farms where they worked, she meets historians, descendents and local people to piece together what happened to Robert and Jim all those years ago.
This programme also features reports from "World War One At 成人快手", a 成人快手 and Imperial War Museums project - all about people and places on the home front of the UK and Ireland during World War One.
Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Anna Jones.