A queue outside the Central London Recruiting Depot at New Scotland Yard in August 1914. The response to Lord Kitchener's appeal. At the beginning of 1914 the British Army had a reported strength of 710,000 men including reserves, of which around 80,000 were regular troops. By the end of the First World War almost 1 in 4 of the total male population of the United Kingdom had joined up, over five million men.
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