Army sign up record - any help re: phrase used

[Terloz]

Hello - I found my great grandad’s army attestation form. I have two questions. There’s a series of questions, one of which is ‘did you receive a notice?’. Then ‘Do you understand its meaning?’ This is 1892. I haven’t come across the phrase ‘a notice’ before. It sounds a bit like national service call up but I don’t think there was conscription then or was there?

second question - there’s a space for a signature and his name is there but there’s a cross between first and second name and a word I can’t make out (mark?) beneath that. The name is written in the same or similar handwriting to the rest of the form. Does it look like he couldn’t read or write and was marking with a cross?

thanks

Sorry - the photo is there but you need to click on it to fully open it and see the word

Looks to me as if the cross is his mark i.e. he was illiterate.

I agree. I’ve seen this (an x with ‘the mark of…’) on other official documents too.

Yep, that's his mark. He couldn't write.

My grandfather's papers in 1883 say he did have a notice and it was given to him by Sergeant Shannon, so I assume it's a recruitment notice.

There was no army conscription prior to WW1 so your G- Grandfather volunteered.

Thanks all!