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At the outbreak of the First World War, the British Empire stretched across the world, but its standing armies were small, suited to small colonial operations and garrison duties. After the outbreak of war in 1914, the British High Command quickly recognised the need for a huge recruitment drive, calling upon thousands of civilians to join the ranks. Lord Kitchener soon became the face of this patriotic call to arms, resulting in the new volunteer forces being dubbed ‘Kitchener’s Army’. These civilians turned soldiers soon found themselves on the front line of a new and devastating kind of war that would change the course of history.