The First Hundred Thousand
By Ian Hay
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The First Hundred Thousand is John Hay Beith’s humorous memoir of military training and life in the trenches as part of the first hundred thousand volunteers in Lord Kitchener’s New Army during the First World War.
Compiled from pieces written for Blackwood’s Magazine, Beith’s memoir was a bestseller in the then-neutral United States as well as in Britain and, following the “Battle of the Slap-Heaps” (Loos), Beith went to work at the information branch of the British War Mission in Washington, supplying war news to the American press.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ian Hay (Major John Hay Beith, MC, CBE) was a novelist and playwright with a humourous and eccentic outlook. He was a friend and collaborator of P G Woodhouse.During WW1 he served with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, going to France in 1915 as part of Kitchener's New Army - the First Hundred Thousand.His eponymous book was based on his experiences at that period. Whilst undoubtedly a piece of propaganda, it bears his trademark humour and wry observation, as such it goes beyond mere propaganda. Published in English, American and Canadian editions in several printings, it was a tremendous success.The author writes from first hand experience and captures the mood and humour of the times - the latter being a much needed defence mechanism needed to survive in the horror of the trenches. It is worth revisiting in today's cynical age for the view it provides of how the war was seen by its willing (they were all volunteers at that stage) participants. But it is also a damned good read.