Lord Horatio Kitchener was a British military and statesmen who in the first years of World War One, organised armies and created famous recruitment posters ever produced.
Mais il y avait aussi les animaux qui agaçaient les hommes : les rats, les poux et les mouches..! Ils mordaient les doigts de pied et apportaient des maladies graves.
The recruitment begins immediatly when War is declared in every countries who had to fight .
Every French and British who were between 18 and 41 years old had to join the war , whereas American hadn’t to .
At first, every soldiers were happy to join the war because they thought that it should be quite short , they didn’t know what it was really and what will happen .
It is important to say that France had got an army , whereas British joined the army thanks to the propagand .
France had a large army and England a large navy . That’s many weeks  later that soldiers have know what was really war …
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Rupert Chawner Brooke born 3 August 1887 in Rugby, Warwickshire, where his father taught classics.He was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War ; however, he never experienced combat at first hand. He was also known for his boyish good looks, “the handsomest young man in England”. In his childhood Brooke immersed himself in English poetry and twice won the school poetry prize. In 1906 he went to King’s college, Cambridge.
Where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles, helped found the Marlowe Society drama club and acted in plays including the Cambridge Greek Play. Brooke made friends among the Bloomsbury group of writers, some of whom admired his talent, while others were more impressed by his good looks.
He died in 23 April 1915.He is buried in Fosse 7 Military Cemetery (Quality Street), Mazingarbe, Pas De Calais, France. He had only joined the battalion on 25 May.
If I should die,think only this of me:
That there ’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
Adust whom England bore,shaped,made aware,
Gave,once,her flowers to love;her ways to roam,
Abody of England’s,brething English air,
Washed by the rivers,blest by suns of home
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
The Boer Wars was the name given to the South African Wars of 1880-1 and 1899-1902, that were fought between the British and the descendants of the Dutch settlers (Boers) in Africa. After the first Boer War William Gladstone granted the Boers self-government in the Transvaal.
The Boers, under the leadership ofPaul Kruger
, resented the colonial policy of Joseph Chamberlain and Alfred Milner which they feared would deprive the Transvaal of its independence. After receiving military equipment from Germany, the Boers had a series of successes on the borders of Cape Colony and Natal between October 1899 and January 1900. Although the Boers only had 88,000 soldiers, led by the outstanding soldiers such as Louis Botha, and Jan Smuts, the Boers were able to successfully besiege the British garrisons at Ladysmith, Mafeking and Kimberley.Army reinforcements arrived in South Africa in 1900 and counter-offences relieved the garrisons and enabled the British to take control of the Boer capital, Pretoria, on 5th June. For the next two years groups of Boer commandos raided isolated British units in South Africa. Lord Kitchener, the Chief of Staff in South Africa, reacted to this by destroying Boer farms and moving civilians into concentration camps.
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The British action in South Africa was strongly opposed by many leading Liberal politicians and most of the Independent Labour Party as an example of the worst excesses of imperialism. The Boer War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging in May 1902. The peace settlement brought to an end the Transvaal and the Orange Free State as Boer republics. However, the British granted the Boers £3 million for restocking and repairing farm lands and promised eventual self-government (granted in 1907).
 
