From The Times, August 10, 1920We commend to the attention of our readers the eloquent and moving appeal on behalf of ex-Service officers and men which we have received from Field-Marshal Lord Haig. To every man of the millions who went out to fight in its hour of deadly peril the country made a promise. In order to become soldiers they had to give up, almost at a moment’s notice, their civil employment. Married or single, they risked their future career, and the livelihood of those dependent on them, on the nation’s solemn pledge. The terms of the bond, as Lord Haig reminds us, were well understood by every man and woman in the

Source: The Times August 09, 2020 23:26 UTC