I do not think that anyone of this side of the discussion has ever referred to the troops as being "mindless morons, idiots who didn't know which way was up" etc. Those expressions have only come from your side.

What I would suggest it that in 1914 all working-class soldiers would have been used to being at the bottom of society, with all that entailed.

And please Teribus can we not go back to the mind numbing and pointless 3 points, that was tedious by any standard.