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قراءة كتاب 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) A Record of its Services in the Great War, 1914-1919

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

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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.
For a complete list, please see the end of this document.






THE 23rd (SERVICE) BATTALION
ROYAL FUSILIERS.

(FIRST SPORTSMAN'S)






COL. THE VISCOUNT MAITLAND.

Army and Navy Stores, photo.

COL. THE VISCOUNT MAITLAND.ToList

Frontispiece



THE
23rd (SERVICE) BATTALION
ROYAL FUSILIERS

(FIRST SPORTSMAN'S)

A RECORD OF ITS SERVICES IN THE
GREAT WAR, 1914-1919




BY

FRED. W. WARD

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







LONDON
SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD.
1920



CONTENTS


  PAGE
Forewords 1
The Sportsmen 3
From Major-General Sir C.E. Pereira, K.C.B., C.M.G. 4
From Major-General R.O. Kellett, C.B., C.M.G. 7
Formation of the Battalion, the Honours gained, and its Record in Brief 9
A New Type of Soldier—The Cosmopolitan Composition of the Battalion 15
Training at Home—How the Finished Soldier Emerged from the Rough Material 23
Service Overseas—Heavy Fighting all along the Front, and a Triumphal March into Germany 35
Great Work accomplished—Holding up a German Advance— Silencing Snipers in a Derelict Tank—And some other Things 67
Presentation of the King's Colour—Major-General Sir C.E. Pereira, K.C.B., C.M.G., and his Pride in the Battalion 73
"Good-bye and Good Luck"—Brigadier-General A.E. McNamara, C.M.G., D.S.O., and his Farewell to the 23rd Royal Fusiliers 77
The Battle of Delville Wood—An Advance in Face of Hundreds of Machine Guns—A Personal Narrative 81
Experiences as a Prisoner of War—Extracts from the Diary kept by "Mr. Brooks, the Schoolmaster" 93
The Honours' List: Names of Officers and Men awarded Decorations and mentioned in Despatches 103
The Roll of Honour: Officers and other Ranks who died that England might live 111
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 143
Editor's Note 167






LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


Colonel the Viscount Maitland Frontispiece
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