The Great War
The BVRC continued to train and develop over the next two decades. When war was declared in 1914, it was embodied to fulfill its role within the Garrison. As the economy would have suffered from taking so many young men from their jobs, members continued to perform their civil jobs, before taking their turns standing sentry at the many places around Bermuda that the BVRC was tasked with guarding. The primary task the BVRC was given was guarding the coastline, but it filled other roles as well. Bermuda, as a whole, filled a number of roles, during the War, the most important of which was as a staging point for trans-Atlantic convoys, overseen from the Royal Navy's dockyard on Ireland Island.
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