Home Front Diary 1914-1918

''One of the saddest and yet most thrilling sights to me was to see parties of those young fellows who had just volunteered being marched from the recruiting office - perhaps 30, 50 or 100 of them - in all sorts of dress - top hats, caps, soft hats, morning coats, jackets - shabby men and ''nuts'', labourers, clerks, partners in great city businesses, hooligans - all mixed up, marching s...