Searching for the Lost of World War One
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Death of a Soldier in the First World War
By the end of the war, people are being treated like adults, as they should be. In the first world war, it was an absolutty extraordinary time that before the first World War, the british army consisted of 300 thousand or so regular soldiers. And those both volunteer and conscripted soldiers were citizen soldiers. So to that extent, there was a sort of democratization of death, which was brand new hats. One of the achievements, i think, of the commonwealth wargraves commission.
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