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OVER 100 FACTS WW1
Neil Michael O’Mara
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Published in 2013 by Andrews UK Limited
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Dedication
In Memory of my Great Uncle
William Isaac Caddick
Died of Wounds 24th May 1918
Aged 19
Introduction
Until 1945 the First World War was referred to as the Great War. Great, that it was unprecedented in its intercontinental spread of fighting and where casualties were on an incomprehensive scale. What started as a local crisis with an assassination of an Archduke, nations soon moved to mobilise their armies like a chain of dominoes. A series of alliances developed this crisis into a terrible conflict which history had thus far never recorded. Initially army numbers swelled for many reasons, patriotism and adventure or simply for three regular meals a day. In Britain commentators reported it