13th (Western) Division
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The 13th (Western) Division was one of the Kitchener's Army divisions in the First World War, raised from volunteers by Lord Kitchener. It fought at Gallipoli, in Mesopotamia and Persia.
Lieutenant General Sir Stanley Maude, KCB, CMG, DSO. Photograph of Sir Stanley Maude after his elevation to commander of Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force. Maude commanded the 13th (Western) Division during Gallipoli Campaign and the unsuccessful attempt torelieve Kut in the Mesopotamian Campaign
View of Gallipoli from the battleship HMS Cornwallis. The smoke is coming from stores being burned during the evacuation.
British troops on the march in Mesopotamia. In February 1916, the 13th (Western) Division was sent to Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) to reinforce the Tigris Corps. The picture was possibly taken in 1917 because of the prevalence of steel helmets.
Soldiers of the 39th Brigade at Enzeli after being evacuated from Baku.
Kitchener's Army
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The New Army, often referred to as Kitchener's Army or, disparagingly, as Kitchener's Mob,
was an (initially) all-volunteer portion of the British Army formed in the United Kingdom from 1914 onwards following the outbreak of hostilities in the First World War in late July 1914. It originated on the recommendation of Herbert Kitchener, then the Secretary of State for War to obtain 500,000 volunteers for the Army. Kitchener's original intention was that these men would be formed into units that would be ready to be put into action in mid-1916, but circumstances dictated the use of these troops before then. The first use in a major action of Kitchener's Army units came at the Battle of Loos.
Alfred Leete's recruitment poster for Kitchener's Army.
1914 poster describing terms of enlistment
A Church of England service at the 10th (Irish) Division's camp at Basingstoke in 1915