Bank clerks, farm workers, labourers, a thief, a former NCO, an office manager, a chauffeur, a serving officer, an artist, a poet, two young men about to go up to university, and an aristocrat...
Just some of the many who answered Kitchener\'s call to serve their country in the autumn of 1914, fully expecting it to all be over by Christmas.
What awaited them was months of training, learning to dig trenches, drill, march...
And when the time came, more than two Christmases later, they w. and kill.
Bank clerks, farm workers, labourers, a thief, a former NCO, an office manager, a chauffeur, a serving officer, an artist, a poet, two young men about to go up to university, and an aristocrat...
Just some of the many who answered Kitchener\'s call to serve their country in the autumn of 1914, fully expecting it to all be over by Christmas.
What awaited them was months of training, learning to dig trenches, drill, march..