When Aircraft Mechanic First Class Henry Allingham and Private Harry Patch returned to civilian life at the end of the First World War, they could at least take comfort in knowing that the country understood what they had been through.
It is 95 years ago tomorrow that Britain declared war and her "contemptible little army", as the Kaiser famously described it, began mobilising, though it was his chief of staff, Moltke, who was the more perceptive, calling the British Expeditionary Force "that perfect thing apart" – all volunteer, and largely out of public sight. It is all too true of the Army today.
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