Collingwood joined the Admiralty intelligence division at the outbreak of the First World War.

Mosby spoke out against secession, but joined the Confederate army as a Private at the outbreak of the war.

Six years later he joined the local Frontier Guards at the outbreak of the Dakota War of 1862.

He had to resort to subterfuge to join the army at the outbreak of the Second World War.

He joined the British Army at the outbreak of the present war and is still a corporal in the Tank Corps.

James Hamilton had joined the British Army at the outbreak of war.

Norman Edwards was aged twenty when he joined the Glosters at the outbreak of war.

The following year, Garros joined the French army at the outbreak of World War I.

Morison joined the Royal Air Force at the outbreak of war in September 1939, and was trained as a pilot.

By 1857, he had moved to Georgia, where he joined the Confederate army at the outbreak of the Civil War.