The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers

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Author

Ward, Fred W.

Title

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

Credits

Produced by David Clarke, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Language

English

LoC Class

D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918)

Subject

Great Britain. Army. 23rd Royal Fusiliers

Category

Text

eBook-No.

20377

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20377

Release Date

January 15, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.THE 23rd (SERVICE) BATTALION ROYAL FUSILIERS. — (FIRST SPORTSMAN'S) — THE 23 rd (SERVICE) BATTALION ROYAL FUSILIERS — (FIRST SPORTSMAN'S) — A RECORD OF ITS SERVICES IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1919
3. 3.FRED. W. WARD — CONTENTS — LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
4. 4.FOREWORDS — THE SPORTSMEN ToC — FROM MAJOR-GENERAL SIR C.E. PEREIRA, K.C.B., C.M.G. ToC — FROM MAJOR-GENERAL R.O. KELLETT, C.B., C.M.G. ToC
5. 5.FORMATION OF THE BATTALION, THE HONOURS GAINED, AND ITS RECORD IN BRIEF — FORMATION OF THE BATTALION, THE HONOURS GAINED, AND ITS RECORD IN BRIEF ToC — Raised in London in 1914 by Mrs E. Cunliffe-Owen (now Mrs. Stamford, O.B.E.)
6. 6.A NEW TYPE OF SOLDIER—THE COSMOPOLITAN COMPOSITION OF THE BATTALION — A NEW TYPE OF SOLDIER—THE COSMOPOLITAN COMPOSITION OF THE BATTALION ToC
7. 7.TRAINING AT HOME—HOW THE FINISHED SOLDIER EMERGED FROM THE ROUGH MATERIAL — TRAINING AT HOME—HOW THE FINISHED SOLDIER EMERGED FROM THE ROUGH MATERIAL ToC
8. 8.SERVICE OVERSEAS—HEAVY FIGHTING ALL ALONG THE FRONT, AND A TRIUMPHAL MARCH INTO GERMANY. — SERVICE OVERSEAS—HEAVY FIGHTING ALL ALONG THE FRONT, AND A TRIUMPHAL MARCH INTO GERMANY. ToC — 1916. — 1917. — 1918. — 1919.
9. 9.GREAT WORK ACCOMPLISHED—HOLDING UP A GERMAN ADVANCE—SILENCING SNIPERS IN A DERELICT TANK—AND SOME OTHER THINGS — GREAT WORK ACCOMPLISHED—HOLDING UP A GERMAN ADVANCE—SILENCING SNIPERS IN A DERELICT TANK—AND SOME OTHER THINGS ToC
10. 10.PRESENTATION OF THE KING'S COLOUR—MAJOR-GENERAL SIR C.E. PEREIRA, K.C.B., C.M.G., AND HIS PRIDE IN THE BATTALION — PRESENTATION OF THE KING'S COLOUR—MAJOR-GENERAL SIR C.E. PEREIRA, K.C.B., C.M.G., AND HIS PRIDE IN THE BATTALION ToC
11. 11."GOOD-BYE, AND GOOD LUCK!"—BRIGADIER-GENERAL A.E. McNAMARA, C.M.G., D.S.O., AND HIS FAREWELL TO THE 23RD ROYAL FUSILIERS (FIRST SPORTSMAN'S BATTALION) — "GOOD-BYE, AND GOOD LUCK!"—BRIGADIER-GENERAL A.E. McNAMARA, C.M.G., D.S.O., AND HIS FAREWELL TO THE 23RD ROYAL FUSILIERS (FIRST SPORTSMAN'S BATTALION) ToC
12. 12.THE BATTLE OF DELVILLE WOOD—AN ADVANCE IN FACE OF HUNDREDS OF MACHINE GUNS—A PERSONAL NARRATIVE — THE BATTLE OF DELVILLE WOOD—AN ADVANCE IN FACE OF HUNDREDS OF MACHINE GUNS—A PERSONAL NARRATIVE ToC
13. 13.EXPERIENCES AS A PRISONER OF WAR—EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY KEPT BY "MR. BROOKS, THE SCHOOLMASTER" — EXPERIENCES AS A PRISONER OF WAR—EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY KEPT BY "MR. BROOKS, THE SCHOOLMASTER" ToC
14. 14.THE HONOURS' LIST — NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN AWARDED DECORATIONS AND MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES — THE HONOURS' LIST ToC — OFFICERS — N.C.O.'S AND MEN
15. 15.THE ROLL OF HONOUR — OFFICERS AND OTHER RANKS WHO DIED THAT ENGLAND MIGHT LIVE — THE ROLL OF HONOUR ToC — OFFICERS — N.C.O.'s AND MEN
16. 16.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 — THE NOMINAL ROLL ToC — EDITOR'S NOTE. ToC

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