The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's)
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- A Record of its Services in the Great War, 1914-1919
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1. Front matter2. THE 23rd (SERVICE) BATTALION ROYAL FUSILIERS.3. THE 23rd (SERVICE) BATTALION ROYAL FUSILIERS4. FRED. W. WARD5. FOREWORDS6. FORMATION OF THE BATTALION, THE HONOURS GAINED, AND ITS RECORD IN BRIEF7. A NEW TYPE OF SOLDIER—THE COSMOPOLITAN COMPOSITION OF THE BATTALION8. TRAINING AT HOME—HOW THE FINISHED SOLDIER EMERGED FROM THE ROUGH MATERIAL9. SERVICE OVERSEAS—HEAVY FIGHTING ALL ALONG THE FRONT, AND A TRIUMPHAL MARCH INTO GERMANY.10. GREAT WORK ACCOMPLISHED—HOLDING UP A GERMAN ADVANCE—SILENCING SNIPERS IN A DERELICT TANK—AND SOME OTHER THINGS11. PRESENTATION OF THE KING'S COLOUR—MAJOR-GENERAL SIR C.E. PEREIRA, K.C.B., C.M.G., AND HIS PRIDE IN THE BATTALION12. "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)13. THE BATTLE OF DELVILLE WOOD—AN ADVANCE IN FACE OF HUNDREDS OF MACHINE GUNS—A PERSONAL NARRATIVE14. EXPERIENCES AS A PRISONER OF WAR—EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY KEPT BY "MR. BROOKS, THE SCHOOLMASTER"15. THE HONOURS' LIST16. THE ROLL OF HONOUR17. THE NOMINAL ROLL