Produced by David Clarke, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) * * * * * +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | 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. | | | | 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) [Illustration: _Army and Navy Stores, photo._ COL. THE VISCOUNT MAITLAND. _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