"I challenged your fantasy figure that %80 of the soldiers went away with your equally fantasised claim of their reasons for going in the first place"

I never claimed anything like that.
I did say that "over 80%" survived.

Of courses I watched and rewatched the programmes.
Not like you with the sound off to add your own commentary supporting you.
You imagined it said that objectors were executed.
You imagined it said wrong sized shells were made and supplied.
You imagined it said Kitchener resigned and he was sacked.

I gave statements made to camera by the presenter, slowly and deliberately in true Paxman style.

The British people and army supported the war.
The army was a "devastating" fighting machine.