The Making Of The British Army by Allan Mallinson

Author:Allan Mallinson [Mallinson, Allan]
Language: zho
Format: epub
Publisher: Transworld Digital
Published: 2009-11-09T16:00:00+00:00

The promise of serving together proved powerful. In Liverpool the earl of Derby, the great mover and shaker of the commercial northwest (and subsequently director-general of army recruiting), called on the office workers to form a battalion: ‘This should be a battalion of pals, a battalion in which friends from the same office will fight shoulder to shoulder for the honour of Britain and the credit of Liverpool.’ And so were born the ‘Pals’ battalions. But instead of one battalion, between 28 August (a Friday) and 3 September Liverpool raised four, the clerks of the White Star shipping company forming up as one platoon, those of Cunard as another, and so on through the warehouses of the Mersey waterside, the cotton exchange, the banks and the insurance companies – men who knew each other better than their mothers knew them, and now doing what their mothers would never ordinarily have countenanced: going for a soldier – at least ‘for the duration’.

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