I am very grateful to the hon. and gallant Gentleman for giving way during his really excellent speech. Is not the most remarkable testimony to the spirit of the nation at the time encapsulated in the words of a famous general from his own regiment, General Anthony Farrar-Hockley, who observed that on the eve of this, the largest military undertaking in British history up to that point, not one single soldier was listed as absent without leave?
First World War (Commemoration)
Proceeding contribution from
Julian Brazier
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 26 June 2014.
It occurred during Debate on First World War (Commemoration).
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