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Rudyard Kipling’s Gentlemen-Rankers first appeared in Barrack-Room Ballads and refers to young men of the privileged classes who may have suffered the indignity of bankruptcy or scandal, and joined the "rank-and-file" of the British Army as privates.

Public Domain (P)2014 Phillip J. Mather
Classics Poetry
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