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23RD SERVICE BATTALION
ROYAL FUSILIERS
1ST SPORTSMAN'S
A RECORD OF IT'S SERVICES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919
CONTENTS
FOREWORDS
FROM THE SPORTSMEN
FROM MAJOR GENERAL SIR C.E.PEREIRA KCB CMG
FROM MAJOR GENERAL R.O.KELLETT CB CMG
FORMATION OF THE BATTALION, THE HONOURS GAINED & IT'S RECORD IN BRIEF
A NEW TYPE OF SOLDIER - THE COSMOPOLITAN COMPOSITION OF THE BATTALION
TRAINING AT HOME - HOW THE FINISHED SOLDIER EMERGED FROM THE ROUGH MATERIAL
SERVICE OVERSEAS - HEAVY FIGHTING ALL ALONG THE FRONT, AND THE TRIUMPHAL MARCH INTO GERMANY
GREAT WORK ACCOMPLISHED - HOLDING UP A GERMAN ADVANCE - SILENCING SNIPERS IN A DERELICT TANK - AND SOME OTHER THINGS
PRESENTATION OF THE KING'S COLOUR - MAJOR GENERAL SIR C.E.PEREIRA KCB CMG AND HIS PRIDE IN THE BATTALION
GOOD BYE & GOOD LUCK BRIGADIER GENERAL A.E.MC NAMARA CMG DSO AND HIS FAREWELL TO THE 23RD ROYAL FUSILIERS
THE BATTLE OF DELVILLE WOOD - AN ADVANCE IN THE FACE OF HUNDREDS OF MACHINE GUNS - A PERSONAL NARATIVE
EXPERIENCES OF A PRISONER OF WAR - EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY KEPT BY MR BROOKS THE SCHOOL MASTER
"THE HONOURS" LIST: NAMES OF OFFICERS & MEN AWARDED DECORATIONS AND MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES
THE ROLL OF HONOUR: OFFICERS AND OTHER RANKS WHO DIED THAT ENGLAND MIGHT LIVE
THE NOMINAL ROLL: NAMES AND NUMBERS OF THE ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF THE BATTALION WHO JOINED EITHER AT THE HOTEL CECIL, LONDON, OR AT HORNCHURCH ESSEX
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