31 percent of the men who graduated Oxford in 1913 were killed in World War 1
The Human Toll Of The War 'To End All Wars' : NPR
entered in 1935
oxford at the time was stil recovering from having its guts shot out in world war I.
29% of the men who matriculated at oxford between 1910 and 1914 were killed on the western front
if you were an Oxford graduate and junior officer, the you werexpected to lead from the front which meant they were five times greater chance of getting killed than a working class an ordinary soldier. Not since the war of the roses did families suffer such In fact one house suffered 1 in four. It was catastrophic for the english upper classes.
Saturday, May 17, 2014
31 percent of the men who graduated Oxford in 1913 were killed in World War 1
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