In England and Scotland too whole public school classes went to the Recruiting Offices.
They didn't finish school and went straight to the war. These boys often served together in the same units.
The consequence was that when such a unit was ordered to attack, many or all contemporaries of a certain school, could die. This happened at the Somme and in Flanders, where the picture above was made.
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