Possible Clues:

• Put the men to work for such an unspecified time
• Unknown quantity in series put me off, shocking then
• Sizable ordinal
• Latest or last of very many
• Put the men into another formation — the last of many?
• Adolescent a little tempted to get into speed after university -- the latest of many
• Latest of many met up, then dispersed
• Indefinite ordinal
• Latest of goodness knows how many the men put out