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Originally Posted by kizzy
Its always the youngest, like the lads 4 weeks out of training too sent over... only 1 over 21 in latest,all from yorkshire regiments. Cannon fodder my mother called them ....Her father served in WW1 so she knows. Not many of the Bradford Pals survived.
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No, it's not always the youngest. You cannot equate today's professional Army with the poor sods who went through the First World War and especially not with the Pals Regiments. It's deeply insulting to call them cannon fodder. No one is conscripted, they all
choose a career in the Army.