3-047-193 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'H.M. The King and Lord Kitchener Inspecting The Newly Raised Army', c1929. 'When, in 1914, there burst on England that "hurricane of destruction and hate that swept quietness out of the world," when the Kaiser plunged the whole of Europe and civilization into the melting pot, it was Lord Kitchener, massive, impenetrable, four-square, that his countrymen turned to almost unanimously'. British forces at the start of the First World War. From "Heroic Deeds of Great Men", by C. Sheridan Jones and Alfred Miles, illustrated by Howard Davie and Harry Payne [Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, London, c1929]