Lord Kitchener’s extravagantly moustachioed face looked out from posters all over England in the late summer of 1914. “Your Country Needs You” exhorted the former general and now Secretary of State for War with a bold finger pointed directly at the viewer.

In 1914, young men answered the call in the tens of thousands. The eager recruits wanted to get into the action because everybody knew the war would be over by Christmas. Not quite everybody felt that way because, as the BBC records in its History of World War One, Lord Kitchener himself “warned the government that the war would be decided by the last million men that Britain could throw into battle.”

Recruiting Pals Battalions

In 1914, the call went out for 100,000 volunteers and General Henry Rawlinson suggested men might be more willing to sign up if they could serve with people they knew. The Pals Battalions were born.

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