Just giving this a bump. I've no idea. I do know that 80% of men volunteering for service in the 2nd Anglo-Boer War were deemed to be unfit for service. Anyone else? Not that I don't think you may be right but can you give a source? as I know someone on another forum that would like to know.
Just a guess if I read the question correctly! I would say WW1. Not for those who were actually selected, but the amount that were deemed unfit. The US for instance had 25-50% of 20-30 year olds who were deemed unfit for military service in the most part for preventable health reasons. From 24 million registered, 10 million were tested and only 4 million accepted. Do not know about other countries but imagine it would have been similar in industrialised countries.
Just giving this a bump. I've no idea. I do know that 80% of men volunteering for service in the 2nd Anglo-Boer War were deemed to be unfit for service. Anyone else? Correct! I don't know the percentage of men (looking at wiki it says 80%). They were rejected on medical grounds for being unfit due to the poor social conditions and diet and it thus became a national scandal.
My question is to whom was Field Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar VC referring when he wrote this in his memoir 41 Years in India? "..... impressed me more profoundly than any man I had ever met before, or have ever met since. I have never seen anyone like him. He was the beau-ideal of a soldier and a gentleman. His appearance was distinguished and commanding, with a sense of power about him which to my mind was the result of his having passed so much life among the wild and lawless tribesman, with whom his authority was supreme. Intercourse with this man amongst men made me more eager than ever to remain on the frontier, and I was seized with ambition to follow in his footsteps"
Brigadier-General John Sanctuary Nicholson, CB, CMG, CBE, DSO Picture here. Page 32 Forty-one years in India: from ... - Field Marshal Robert - Google Books
Bernard Freyburg VC, the Salamander nickname was given by Churchill due to Freyburg's apparent love of fire and being in the thick of it.
Lieutenant-General John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts? ... he distinguished himself once more at the famous Siege of Namur (1695), winning for himself the name of "Salamander" by his indifference to the heaviest fire.
Correct Enes, Jonathan Swift wrote a poem about him. The works of Jonathan Swift - Jonathan Swift - Google Books
Who said this and after what battle? There is no beating these troops, in spite of their generals. I always thought that they were bad soldiers - now I am sure of it. I had turned their right, pierced their centre and everywhere victory was mine - but they did not know how to run!
Who said this and after what battle? There is no beating these troops, in spite of their generals. I always thought that they were bad soldiers - now I am sure of it. I had turned their right, pierced their centre and everywhere victory was mine - but they did not know how to run! Jean De Dieu Soult, after the battle of Albuera.
Ok this might seem easy but......name of first soldier to die in WW1 and what connects him to me. Do you mean the first British soldier ?
Not easy for me. Private John Parr? He is your great uncle? Names right Spidge, and the other part was slightly tricky as only some members know my surname is Parr no relative that I know of but as well as sharing the surname........ his name is the same a my brother and we all share the same initials! over to you.
Thanks............... Which military leader said his troops would become Muslims as long as they could still drink wine and not lose their foreskins?
