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This might be of interest.
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This was largely why uniforms were so small. Things had changed only a little by the year 1914 and by 1917-18 the appearance of British recruits alongside Canadians, ANZACs and eventually Americans was a profound embarrassment as Britain scraped the bottom of its barrel after 3-years of attritional, industrial scale slaughter. Despite that massive National effort apparently slightly less than a quarter of all the nation’s men “of military age” ever served in uniform with around 20% of them KIA and another 20% maimed to some degree. Last edited by Toby Purcell; 17-03-23 at 10:30 AM. |
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Thanks for that Toby. Fascinating aspect of old Britain in that report. Many today are unaware of the socio economic conditions of the 19th and early 20th centuries that contributed to this. As I touched upon, officers tended to be of much better physical condition due to their class than the ranks were, and this is reflected in the surviving uniforms of the period.
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Nice photograph Peter
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The main gate of Seaforth Barracks
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Thank you for that wonderful photo Peter, it is indeed of great interest, and your sharing it sincerely appreciated. I’m sorry that I did not spot your reply at first.
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Interestingly before Seaforth Barracks was handed over to the King’s Regiment it had previously been one of several depots of the Royal Garrison Artillery and most significantly in the context of this thread was where they trained collectively their Boy Trumpeters, one of the very first Boy establishments. Subsequently all the branches of the artillery combined and collocated their Boy Trumpeters training at Woolwich and later still Larkhill.
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I wasn’t suggesting different Paul, I don’t think. My intent was really just to point out the interesting fact that Seaforth Barracks had coincidentally had one of the earliest Boy establishments before the barracks was handed to the King’s. At that time each infantry battalion and cavalry regiment trained its own boys in very small groups, whereas the Royal Artillery branches were the very first to do things differently and achieve an economy of scale by training their Boy entrants centrally. Eventually all the arms that recruited boys followed suit.
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