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First Hundred Thousand Volunteers Requested

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1914

Horatio Herbert Kitchener Khartoum7 August 1914

London · Warfare / World War, 1st

Calls for the first one hundred thousand volunteers needed to begin building the New Armies.

Names involved

Horatio Herbert Kitchener Khartoum

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