DAVID LLOYD GEORGE EXHIBITION 1863-1945 March 1995

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THE FIRST WORLD WAR - WAR OFFICE

With his success as Minister of Munitions Lloyd George very often found himself impatient with the slow and ineffectual way the Government conducted the War generally. He disagreed with Prime Minster Asquith over the question of military conscription. Lloyd George publicly and strongly supported it and his position within the cabinet was greatly strengthened when at the beginning of 1916 Asquith had to present a conscription measure. Asquith's position was weakened further by the Government's reaction to the Easter Rising by some Irish nationalists when it was bitterly criticised for executing fourteen of the leaders. After the death of Lord Kitchener, Lloyd George moved to the War Office in July 1916 and found himself in an even stronger position to challenge his own Prime Minister.

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Parliamentary Recruiting Committee (London), "Dowch gyda mi, fechgyn!"
(World War I Poster Collection)

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Valentine (Dublin), "The revolt of Sinn Feiners in Ireland: Sinn Feiners
parading through the streets before the rebellion."
(PZ109 Llyfr Ffoto LLGC : NLW Photograph Album 480)

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Daily Sketch, "Irish Rebellion, May, 1916: A group of Officers with the captured rebel flag."
(PZ109 Llyfr Ffoto LLGC : NLW Photograph Album 480)

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Daily Sketch, "Irish Rebellion, May 1916: Guarding one of the Dublin Streets."
(PZ109 Llyfr Ffoto LLGC : NLW Photograph Album 480)

Valentine (Dublin), "Sinn Fein Rebellion, Dublin: friends visiting Sinn Fein prisoners."
(PZ109 Llyfr Ffoto LLGC : NLW Photograph Album 480)

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J Mason, Poster"War!! England, Germany and Ireland".
(PZ109 Llyfr Ffoto LLGC : NLW Photograph Album 480)

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