Churchill’s Improbable Army

In 1914 Winston Churchill created the Royal Naval Division, whose men would fight as infantry in some of the fiercest battles of World War I. AFTER THE VIRTUAL DECIMATION of the regular British Army at the Marne and Ypres in 1914, necessity quickly ushered in the creation of army formations the likes of which the …

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