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 | | Following the outbreak of hostilities in the Great War the then British Secretary of State for War Horatio Kitchener, Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, advised forming a volunteer army of a million men. |
 | | Contrary to general cabinet belief that the war would be over by Christmas of 1914, Kitchener predicted a long and brutal war, in which, if timed right, the arrival of an overwhelming force of new, well trained and led divisions would prove a decisive blow against the Central Powers. |
 | | Kitchener fought off all opposition to his plan, and all attempts to weaken or water down it's potential, including a piece meal dispersal of the regiments. |
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