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The hierarchical structure of the wartime army strongly resembled that of the prewar Regular army. A temporary officer believed that ‘Between officers and men there was a great gulf fixed’.1 An American who enlisted in 1914 had to come to terms with ‘the class distinctions of British army life’:
The officer class and the ranker class are east and west, and never the twain shall meet, except in their respective places upon the parade-ground.2
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Sheffield, G.D. (2000). Officer-Man Relations: the Disciplinary and Social Context. In: Leadership in the Trenches. Studies in Military and Strategic History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230596986_5
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