This range is inspired by a tin button badge, produced in 1916 as a memorial to Lord Kitchener and held in IWMâs world renowned collection.
Kitchener was made Secretary of State for War in 1914, and led a campaign to recruit volunteers to massively expand the British Army, raising âKitchenerâs Armyâ. He died in 1916 after the warship taking him to negotiations in Russia was sunk by a mine laid by a German submarine near the Orkney Islands.
The âDeeds not Wordsâ book page is taken from an original First World War volume of essays written by Donald Hankey called âA Student in Armsâ in which he discusses the common challenges being met by Britainâs citizen army during the war
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