Army increases recruitment of minors

More than twenty-four per cent of non-officer rank intake to the army are under-eighteen

by The Friends Newsdesk 2nd December 2016

New figures show that twenty-four per cent of British army recruits are child soldiers.

The Ministry of Defence has just released the UK Armed Forces Biannual Statistics for 2016. They reveal that the proportion of the army’s non-officer rank intake aged under-eighteen increased from 22.2 per cent to 24.2 per cent.