Front matter

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VICTORY! By permission of] [The Proprietors of “Punch.” PUNCH’S VICTORY CARTOON USED FOR THE BATTALION CHRISTMAS CARD, 1918.

THE HISTORY OF THE EIGHTH BATTALION THE QUEEN’S OWN ROYAL WEST KENT REGIMENT 1914–1919

PRINTED PRIVATELY FOR THE BATTALION BY

HAZELL, WATSON & VINEY, LD.

LONDON AND AYLESBURY

1921

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TO ALL THOSE COMRADES, BRAVE MEN

AND TRUE, WHO FOUGHT AND DIED,

THIS BOOK IS REVERENTLY DEDICATED.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

By permission of the Proprietors of “Punch.”

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