Originally Posted by
Deeranged
1894
The Queen's Shilling? What year did that stop being a thing? Was it 1879? I think it was. I'm not as young as I used to be but FFS.
I was paid a day's wages for attending an attestation day, is that what you mean? Certainly don't remember being given a shilling and told that it constituted a binding agreement between me and anyone else - but then it was 1984 and not 1784.