"Your list of 14 does not come from any historian, or have you identified a source?"
My list of 14 reasons for joining are all historically established reasons for joining are are accepted as fact by all historians.
They are a part of our culture and have been so since the end of World War One
Which one of them do you dispute in particular ?
If you have any evidence that none of them are valid, produce your evidence - you really do not need confirmation for something that is accepted until it is challenged - show an example that a single one of them has been challenged INCLUDING YOUR OWN 'FAVE' HASTY MAX (WHOSE QUALIFICATIONS ON THE CAUSES OF THE WAR HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED AS "WEAK" BY THE REVIEW YOU PUT UP, BY THE WAY - not such a great historian, maybe?).
All of these reasons have been included in most of the articles you have been provided with, including the Wiki article you dishonestly claimed backed your case
One again you disgracefully dismiss an eye witness account of the feelings of a soldier who took part in the fighting and actually wrote that account in a military hospital following the Battle of Loos - what are you on Keith?
Jim Carroll