Dugald pointed out another fact
I got onto thinking about this topic after having recently read on another Forum, as well as having read about it in this week's Campbeltown Courier, of another means whereby conscription into the military could be avoided. I'm referring here to a group of "conscripts" known as Bevin Boys.
Both groups avoided conscription into the armed forces. One willingly maybe one not so willingly. But for whatever reason a number of able bodied men avoided serving in the armed forces.
If you want to deny it happened you join plenty of other people who deny a whole number of things which actually happened during the war.
With respect to Dugald's efforts in making some serious contributions on one of the best topics on I'm forcing myself to restrict comments to the actual debate. there are books devoted to Ireland, Northern Ireland and WW II. The author of the Coleraine Battery website summed up in my readings an accurate description of the position.
He notes
Despite this negative mindset, 80,000 volunteers from Southern Ireland and 38,000 volunteers from Northern Ireland enrolled into the British Armed Forces. Over 4,500 of the Northern Ireland volunteers were killed in action during WWII. (Adamson, in Marrinan 1986)
Others can read the site but I doubt they will arrive at your conclusion
.a six counties unionist website
part of the value of this thread has been the mix of alternative views within historians and actual recollections of people who were there.