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Excerpt from Raising and Training the New Armies "Our Expeditionary Force numbered, at the beginning of the war, 160,000 men. Our Expeditionary Forces to-day number over 3,000,000 - probably the greatest feat of military organization in the history of the world.... The raising and training of our New Army was an unexampled feat, and will always be associated with the name - the great name - of Lord Kitchener." Thus spoke the Prime Minister in moving the vote of thanks from the House of Commons to the officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the British Armies in the Field. The aim of this volume is to give some indication of the way in which we accomplished what the Prime Minister has justly called "the greatest feat of military organization in the history of the world"; how, while fighting with all the trained men we had, we were gradually raising and training the vast armies which have proved as little contemptible in size or achievement as the original expeditionary force was in achievement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.