Kindle Notes & Highlights
The number of workers used by the British Army for this work between 1915 and 1918 increased twenty-five fold.
The total production of wood in Britain was over 257,000,000 Feet Board Measurement
Contrary to an optimistic report that almost all the men had volunteered, this was not true; the men stated that they had signed on for home service only and would not go abroad. It took some time to persuade them otherwise, and the division was not able to go overseas until May 1915.
The ASC also had to supply quarters at home for the great influx of new recruits – 168,249 in August 1914 and 383,329 in September 1914.
By May 1915 accommodation had been found for 1,408,000 men: 262,000 in barracks, 580,000 in huts, 264,000 in tents, and 302,000 in billets and hired buildings.
W.N. Nicholson, Behind the Lines: An account of administrative staffwork in the British Army 1914–1918 (London, 1939).
French wire-cutting automobile.
