[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by garinda

By 1914, it's reported, the phone book was the largest single printing contract in the country, running off 1.5 million copies.

That would soon be overshadowed by the goverment contracts to supply paper work for the armed services during WW1, over 5.500,000, men in this country alone. So far I have found 178 different forms. Each man had two files, one was retained at the central regimental depot, the other was kept at battalion level, and updated regularly. when a man was wounded, or sick, sent to hospital, or transferred to another regiment, his file was sent to his new posting, and more paper work added, thats a heck of a lot of paper.

Retlaw.