"Jim, it is possible to be a veteran and a liar."
You are are now openly calling a WW1 veteran a liar because his eye-witness account doesn't fit your jingoistic garbage - you are an unspeakable shit.
You have ignored the 14 reasons given for men joining up - many of which coincide with Tommy Kenny's "wildly unrepresentative" account - which continues to make you one of the most dishonest people on this forum
You have disgraced those who died by attempting to make one of the main reasons for the war the defence of an Imperial power which was responsible for the massacre and torture of ten million of its subjects - you have consistently refused to comment on Belgium's genocidal nature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recruitment_to_the_British_Army_during_the_First_World_War You are a fanatical jingoist
Jim Carroll

And some more unlikely accounts
Some were conscripted - this however was introduced in March 1916 when numbers of volunteers failed to match the rates with which they were being killed.
Patriotism - many joined up in a fit of patriotic fervour believing that they were fighting to protect their country and families.
Propaganda - WWI propaganda suggested that this was a necesary fight by exaggerating the way that Germans treated women and children. One poster claimed that German soldiers attacked nuns and another that a Canadian soldier had been crucified. Thus the war was sold in terms of a rightous fight against evil.
Peer-group pressure - it was seen partly as a civic duty to join, but also many men saw their friends, neighbours and work colleagues enlist and they joined up too. The British army had to form so many new battalions that they allowed people from the same towns and communities to join the same battalions. Called the "Pals Battalions" these units had a strong local identity to mostly northern towns.
Adventure - many of those who enlisted saw the war as a chance to grab a bit of glory. When war was declared it was genuinely thought that it would be over pretty quickly, men joined thinking that if they delayed a decision that the war would be over and others would get the honour of having participated.