Wiltshire and the Great War: Training the Empire's Soldiers

by T.S. Crawford

Soon after the start of the Great War, work hastily began on a series of hutted camps in Wiltshire for more than 100,000 men, and during the course of the war it became home to troops from Canada, Australia and New Zealand as well as Britain. With soldiers forming a third of the population the effect on the businesses, farms, and indeed the morals of the county was dramatic. Even after the Armistice peace did not return, with mutinies and rioting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847973558
• ISBN13: 9781847973559
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)
• Length: 208 Pages