Forms local volunteer force. Begins 6-vol history of British Campaign in France and Flanders . Herbert Asquith remains Prime Minister for Coalition. Poison gas first used in war. Ford sells 1 millionth car.
Gallipoli campaign begins.
1916 Visits fronts. Announces conversion to spiritualism. Bloody battles at Verdun and the Somme. Assassination of Rasputin. U.S. enters the Great War.