‘Beefy British Ignoramuses obsessed by Sport’: Preparing for Battle in Britain’s Public Schools in the First World War
Public schoolboys in the Great War have been portrayed as being romantic patriots heavily influenced by the teaching of the classics and the playing of games. This paper will examine the training of these boys both before and during the war within the Officers Training Corps.
Timothy Halstead has written extensively about the role of the public schools in the Great War, as well as the development and role of the Officer Training Corps both before and during the Great War. His first book was A School in Arms: Uppingham and the Great War. His most recent book, More than Victims of Horace: Public Schoolboys 1914-1918,has been published by Helion. He was educated at Uppingham and completed an MA in British First World War Studies at the University of Birmingham. He works as Data Protection Officer for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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