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Diary extracts - Private John Howard.
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Tom Barnes 11MJT Private John Howard 28th August 1914 Well a rather queer thing happened to me today, I joined the British Army. Well over the past few weeks I have been hearing random comments about war in Germany, I just thought that this was a load of twaddle so I did not look into it any further. I got into work today and sat down at my desk when I heard a fearful roar, I opened up the window and looked outside. To my astonishment there was a line of young men, some even younger then me, from the City Hall to even where I could not see. I shouted down at a young boy. 'You there, what in blazes is going on?' and he replied in a hearty voice 'It is war sir, all the men are joining the army.' Well that took me back a bit, I ran down...
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