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Old 21 August 2009, 09:21 AM   #19 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Sandy Spigot-Colon View Post
As to the upper classes, they were dying in substantial numbers on the ground too, look at junior officer casualties if you doubt me and even officers of senior rank died in considerable numbers—often rather giving lie to the idea that they were all thirty miles back getting drunk in a chateaux.

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Oh absolutely, especially in the very large battles in WW1. Artillery shells don't care what accent you have, or what school you went to.

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