@Texuk Yes indeed. Our soldiers are great, none better; some of our higher ranked officers were abysmal - and every so often we produce a Marlborough, Wellington, Colin Campbell, Slim or Montgomery and think everything in the garden is rosy.

@Allelse A shilling a day
Bloody good pay
Less stoppages. . .

@MandyMitchell BAHAHAHAHA!!! Yeah, less stoppages.

@Allelse So about one and eightpence a week for the honour of serving the Queen.

@Colormegone One of my grandchildren was 'taught' about the First World War at school. All he learned was that women got the vote. Nothing about the slaughter, the gas, the air raids on Britain, the fantastic response by the Commonwealth, the campaigns in Africa and the Middle east or the birth of the League of nations.

@MandyMitchell Don’t get me started about what was taught over here about Christopher Columbus.😡

@Colormegone sailed the Ocean Blue?

@Texuk That's always the way. Then and now.