Grandads Army
In August 1914, on the outbreak of the First World War, there was enormous pressure on men to enlist in Kitchener's New Armies, supplementing the tiny regular army and Territorial Force. We are all familiar, if only through BBC TV's 'Dad's Army', with the… Celý popis ↓
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Grandads Army
In August 1914, on the outbreak of the First World War, there was enormous pressure on men to enlist in Kitchener's New Armies, supplementing the tiny regular army and Territorial Force. We are all familiar, if only through BBC TV's 'Dad's Army', with the Home Guard of the Second World War.Far less is known of their First World War equivalent: the Volunteer Training Corps (VTC). This pressure was intense, and posters, the entreaties of local worthies, and an apparently indiscriminate scattering of white feathers, all exacerbated masculine sensitivity.
They fought for the right to be armed, uniformed and trained; to be employed on meaningful duties; and at first, to exist at all. Like their counter-parts in WW2, the VTC comprised those who were too old, too young, too unfit or too indispensable to serve in the regular forces. This book explores the origins, development and
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