Children at war
At the start of the First World War, Britain was the only major power involved without a large-scale standing army, with an armed force of approximately 700,000 soldiers. In sharp contrast, the German ...
Tag Archives: Lord Kitchener
We’re all in this together
It is almost for sure that many readers will agree with Tony Simpson’s (March 2014) observations regarding the Kitchener coin, the First World War and the need for much more effort to be made by the i ...
The pity of it all
It is almost for sure that many readers of the Mature Times will agree with Tony Simpson’s observations regarding the Kitchener coin, the First World War and the need for much more effort to be ...
Kitchener coin
Why put Lord Kitchener on the new £2 coin – what right had he to ‘want’ men for war? His pointing finger was a threat not an invitation – join up or be conscripted. Fight or be shot at daw ...