Atdtda - Chums in WW1

[Michel]

Was reading in John Keegan's excellent The First World War (1998).  In 
chapter 8 he tells that the British volunteers from the same city or 
region could stay together in the 'Kitchener batallions' (on condition 
they enlisted together) and were named after their origin, preceded with 
'Chums of '.

Many of these young guys were killed at the Somme in 1916.

Michel.

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