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Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Norman Ten Hundred, by A. Stanley Blicq
Title: Norman Ten Hundred
A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
Author: A. Stanley Blicq
Release Date: September 27, 2008 [eBook #26713]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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NORMAN TEN HUNDRED- BY -
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This modest work is dedicated to:
Mrs. P. EREAUX,
in appreciation of her genial personality,
strong moral courage and unhesitating
adherence to duty as she conceived it.
And also to:
GEORGE W. CLARKE, Esq.,
in memory of those Great Days when
we marched the Long Trail together;
shared the same sorrows, the same mirth;
—and now the same memories, far away,
indistinct; laughter merged with the
tears.
A. STANLEY BLICQ.
Guernsey, 1920.
NORMAN TEN HUNDRED.
A BATTALION OF THE OLDEST AND SMALLEST
DEMOCRACY IN THE WORLD.
Guernsey—named Sarnia by the Romans—one of the Channel Isles from out the sun swathed romance of whose shores rallied a fierce band of Norman warriors to the aid of their Duke, William of Normandy; afterwards the Conqueror, at Hastings, 1066. In reward for their valour William granted the Isles the independence they maintain to this day. From Guernsey something approaching 7,000 men have gone out into the Great Undertaking. The Norman Ten Hundred is the 1st Royal Guernsey Light Infantry offered by the States of Guernsey for active participation side by side with the Mother Country's troops in any of the fighting areas. The narrative is authentic.
CONTENTS
| I | SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER, 1917 | |
| II | SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER, 1917 | HENDECOURT |
| III | NOVEMBER, 1917 | CAMBRAI REHEARSAL |
| IV | MOVING UP | |
| V | NOVEMBER 20th, 1917 | CAMBRAI OFFENSIVE THE ADVANCE |
| VI | MARCOING—MASNIERES | |
| VII | HOLDING THE LINE MASNIERES |
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| VIII | NOVEMBER 30th–DECEMBER 1st, 1917 | GERMAN ONSLAUGHT |
| IX | DECEMBER–JANUARY, 1918 | HOUVIN |
| X | DECEMBER–JANUARY, 1918 | FLERS—LE PARCQ—VERCHOCQ |
| XI | DECEMBER–JANUARY, 1918 | LEULENE—BRANDHOEK—YPRES |
| XII | PASSCHENDAELE SECTOR | |
| XIII | PASSCHENDAELE SECTOR POPERINGHE—STEENVOORDE—BRANDHOEK |
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| XIV | MARCH–APRIL, 1918 | IN THE LINE |
| XV | APRIL 10–14, 1918 | DOULIEU-ESTAIRES |
TEN HUNDRED
By A. Stanley Blicq
I
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1917
Fed up! Every man of the Ten Hundred was fed up. Thirty-six hours cooped in cattle trucks, thirty or forty in a truck and inhaling an atmosphere that would have disgusted a pig—enough to feed anyone up.
The Belgian frontier was crossed at sunset and the fringe of war's devastation penetrated. Little interest or casual comment was aroused, although a reputable thirsty one remarked that he thought Jerry might have spared the village pub.
The long line of dirty trucks stopped with an abrupt jerk and noisy jarring of impact. Then it came! Grumbles ceased as if by common consent. There was something indefinable but pregnant, and in tense