Kitchener's Army

GPTKB entity

Properties (55)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf military formation
gptkbp:composedOf Pals battalions
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:culturalImpact depicted in literature and film
gptkbp:demographics young men
gptkbp:disbanded 1919
gptkbp:equipment gptkb:Lee-Enfield_rifle
gptkbp:firstAwarded approximately 1 million
gptkbp:firstDeployment gptkb:Western_Front
gptkbp:formed 1914
gptkbp:historicalEvent gptkb:Battle_of_the_Scarpe
gptkb:Battle_of_Verdun
Battle of the Somme
Battle of Cambrai
Battle of Loos
Battle of Mons
Battle of Neuve Chapelle
Battle of Passchendaele
Battle of the Aisne
Battle of Arras
Battle of Amiens
Battle of Ypres
Battle of the Lys
Battle of the Sambre
gptkbp:historicalSignificance first large-scale volunteer army in Britain
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Kitchener's Army
gptkbp:leadership gptkb:Lord_Kitchener
gptkbp:legacy influenced_future_British_military_recruitment
gptkbp:motto We Will Not Forget
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:Herbert_Kitchener
gptkbp:notableBattle gptkb:Battle_of_Gallipoli
Battle of the Somme
Battle of Passchendaele
Battle of Arras
gptkbp:notableFeature gptkb:H.G._Wells
gptkb:Rudyard_Kipling
gptkb:C.S._Lewis
gptkb:John_Buchan
gptkb:Winston_Churchill
gptkb:George_Bernard_Shaw
gptkb:A.A._Milne
gptkb:T.E._Lawrence
gptkb:J.R.R._Tolkien
gptkb:David_Lloyd_George
gptkbp:participatedIn gptkb:World_War_I
gptkbp:postWarCareer influenced_British_military_policy
gptkbp:recruitment gptkb:British_Empire
Your Country Needs You
posters and propaganda
gptkbp:replacedBy New_Army_divisions
gptkbp:secondaryRole infantry
gptkbp:size over 2 million volunteers by 1916
gptkbp:training various_training_camps_in_the_UK
gptkbp:type volunteer army
gptkbp:uniform khaki