Swearing in of British recruits, 1914

English recruits are sworn in on the New Testament of the Bibel. As the troops in France began to shrink, Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener started a large scale recruitment promotion to engage new young people as soldiers. Often, they received only a short training and were then shipped to France to support the remaining troops

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1914

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