loansome roads we couldn't afford to spare the troops because of a potential threat from across the Channel in France after the colonists solicited help from Britain's main enemy the French. Neat move of your part. One interesting statistic from the Colonial War was that more British troops deserted to be with their colonial sweethearts that were actually killed in the fighting. Another neat move on your part.
King Brown, the British army were always a professional army until the First World War when conscription became a requirement due to losses. My Great Uncle was also killed at Ypres in 1915. It was a tough war but the 1914 British professional lot were the best trained, equipped and experienced in the world at that time. Although greatly outnumbered they stopped the Germans in their tracks with the Germans believing that we were all armed with machine guns because of the speed and accuracy of fire. We then had to retreat to close the gap between us in Belgium and the French army and then it was a case of just dig in and hold. Lagopous.....
