The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's) / A Record of its Services in the Great War, 1914-1919

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THE 23rd (SERVICE) BATTALION ROYAL FUSILIERS. (FIRST SPORTSMAN'S)

FRED. W. WARD CAPTAIN R.E., FORMERLY NO. 662 FIRST SPORTSMAN'S BATTALION

FOREWORDS

FORMATION OF THE BATTALION, THE HONOURS GAINED, AND ITS 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 A TRIUMPHAL MARCH INTO GERMANY.

GREAT WORK ACCOMPLISHED HOLDING UP A GERMAN ADVANCE SILENCING

PRESENTATION OF THE KING'S COLOUR MAJOR-GENERAL SIR C.E.

"GOOD-BYE, AND GOOD LUCK!" BRIGADIER-GENERAL A.E. McNAMARA,

THE BATTLE OF DELVILLE WOOD AN ADVANCE IN FACE OF HUNDREDS OF MACHINE GUNS A PERSONAL NARRATIVE

EXPERIENCES AS A PRISONER OF WAR EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY KEPT BY "MR. BROOKS, THE SCHOOLMASTER"

THE HONOURS' LIST NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN AWARDED DECORATIONS AND MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES




Transcriber's Note:


The Nominal Roll was originally printed in two columns, and numbered on each page from top to bottom, left to right. This has been reproduced in this document. To avoid confusion, each page break is marked.

Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has been preserved.

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this text.
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