Wow. Not exactly a historian OR a combat veteran, are you? Not huge on logic, either: the officers were "armed" with riding crop or swagger sticks and a whistle, while their enemies covered No-Man's-Land with sheets of continuous machine gun fire and artillery. No contest.
You are the one who appears to be quite ignorant of history. Maybe a Western Civ survey course as a freshman in college to supplement your high school course taught by a coach?
Maybe if you study the British class structure which didn’t really begin to break down until after World War I, you’d be able to comprehend my comment.