It’s the number on this plaque that makes one stop and ponder. The text says that the club formed here at St Chad's School Room in Stafford had to deal with forty thousand soldiers.
Stafford was just a regular market town; and to think that the numbers, in such a relatively small place, were as great as this over two years shows how enormous the effect of World War One was in provincial England.
There were a lot of encamped men going back and forth from the front.
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