Conscription Association Blouse - battledress
The Conscription Union was founded in October 1945 and merged under itself the Union of Czechoslovak Officers, the Union of National Rifle Guards, the Union of Czechoslovak Staff Sergeants and the Union of Czechoslovak Reservists. It brought together over half a million members and, under the supervision of the Ministry of National Defence, took over all conscription training and conscription-sport activities in the republic.
The members of the Conscription Association wore mainly old uniforms of the Czechoslovak, British and German armies, marked on their collars with circular badges with the letters "SB". A modified battledress of Czechoslovak origin from our collections bears the same. This one, apart from the union badges, is also fitted with Czechoslovak military buttons.
The Conscription Union was not long-lived. Just before the communist putsch in February 1948, the main leaders of the Union were arrested, and the facilities and arms depots were occupied by members of the SNB emergency regiments and the People's Militia. All activities of the Union were stopped and in May of the following year the Conscription Union was formally dissolved.
