War income

[amalan11]

I was wondering if any older posters know this ?? listining to news today the Military people are upset that their pay is being cut.It got me thinking did we pay our men to go and fight in WW1 or WW2   or Vietnam?

I had never really thought about it before ,I guess I just assumed they went for the love of Australia .I guess the families must have had some help as it would be impossible for a wife and children to survive in the absence of the man when women didn't work

can anyone enlighten me

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

In M*A*S*H  they got paid. 

[kilroy_is_here]

Of course they were payed in fact they were payed different amounts depending on what roll they played

[kilroy_is_here]

Another useless fact in world war 1 many of the officers bought their way out of military service

[the_great_she_elephant]

My dad got paid during WWll The money went to my mum while he was a POW.

[imastawka]

Of course they got paid.   It was a job, same as any other.

My dad was in the army in WW2.  His pay was divided and the larger amount

was sent home to mum.    After all, they did have a mortgage and kids, same

as everybody else.

[amalan11]

Im glad POW families got helped that must have been awful .In my family no one  went to the war as they were in mining so exempted im told.hope your dad came home ok

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

Just asked FIL, he's 80 something,

He said they got 2 and 6 a day

and then he said "maybe it was 5 bob a day, wasn't bloody much anyway"

[amalan11]

Yes thinking about it it makes sense they must have been paid for it .These days the Military is seen as a career in itself but I just wondered about the men who left jobs in such numbers to go and fight . The cost must have been astronomical to the Goverment.Its one part of the war I have never heard spoken of

[amalan11]

Pimpy..I wonder what that was worth ? if it was say 5 bob as he calls it  would say 10 bob pay for rent for a week ?