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From 1917 British soldiers who were unfit or too old for front line service were to serve unarmed and within the range of German guns for weeks or even months at a time undertaking these tasks. The vital, yet largely unreported role played by these men was crucial to achieving victory in 1918. Labour units were seen as a poor relative of the Army, made up of the old, unfit and foreigners. The majority of the men were non-combatant. At the time, and since, they have not been given the recognition they deserved. Their work may not have been glamorous but can be summed up in four words - No Labour, No Battle.  For this book John Starling and Ivor Lee have brought together extensive research from both primary and secondary sources. They trace how military labour developed from an ad hoc loose arrangement in 1914 to a Corps in November 1918 some 400,000 strong, supported by dominion and foreign labour of more than a million men. Conscientious objectors were also used to supplement labour numbers. Detailing the work of the Corps as far afield as Russia, East Africa and Mesopotamia, the many types of work they were required to do, and the role of prisoners of war, No Labour, No Battle is a unique record of the part played by Labour in the First World War and in its immediate aftermath. Following the war, the grim and solemn work of clearing battlefields and constructing cemeteries fell of course to the newly formed Labour Corps. 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Following the war, the grim and solemn tasks of clearing battlefields and constructing cemeteries, which continued until 1921, were also the responsibility of the Corps. 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