A new exhibition tells the full story of how London bus drivers risked their lives to transport the troops during the First World War
They were among the very first to volunteer for the Western Front, although their contribution to the First World War has been overlooked for years .
Now an exhibition tells the full story of how London bus drivers risked their lives to transport the troops.
Although regular soldiers were resentful of the higher pay of the drivers, and often ribbed them about not being “proper soldiers”, theirs was hardly a cushy job. Some were killed by shellfire, and one bus was blown up within a week of arriving in France. The wreckage remained stuck in the mud and was such a