06-11-18, 03:05 PM
(06-11-18, 02:42 PM)YamFazFan link Wrote: [quote author=mtread link=topic=17546.msg286532#msg286532 date=1541454820]
public schoolboys blowing whistles so that poor devils could run at machine guns.
The officers certainly didn't escape the slaughter on the battlefield either.
17% of officers died compared with 12% of the regular soldiers.
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And in some cases I think many of those public schoolboy officers formed a solid bond with their men, learned to understand where the ordinary working man came from, his hopes, his fears. Some went home and campaigned for their interests. Some wrote very eloquently in poetry and prose about the horrors they had seen, and the wrong of it all.