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British military prints (1909)

Nevill, Ralph, 1865-1930, Menzies, William Gladstone, 1879- · London : The Connoisseur publishing company · leaf 96

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Bold Fifth, and the Shiners. The 6th (Royal Warwickshire Regiment) have an antelope on theirbadge. It is said that this was adopted owing to the regiment having oncecaptured a standard with an antelope upon it, which they presented to theQueen of the day. At one time, when quartered at the town,… … The 7th Royal Fusiliers has a splendid record of services in thePeninsula. In the Crimea, the 7th were in the Light Division, under SirGeorge Brown, and made a splendid charge at the Alma, pressing on amidst aregular hail of bullets, those carrying the colours being shot down one afterthe other.…

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