MoD calls up 900 reservists for tour of duty

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Nine hundred reservists are to be drafted in to serve in Iraq, the defence minister Ivor Caplin announced yesterday.

It will increase the total number of part-time servicemen and women in Iraq from 750 to 1,000 by next May.

Those selected to serve will be deployed from April 2005 onwards, Mr Caplin said in a Commons written answer.

The reservists, from the Territorial Army in Scotland, will replace 750 part-time men and women serving in and around Basra who are due home in May 2005. The additional 150 reservists will take over a hospital now being run by the regular army.

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