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Old 14-05-20, 08:08 AM
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I can remember reading an anecdote about the London Rifle Brigade, a prestigious T.F. unit that allegedly charged an annual fee for membership before the Great War. After a particularly hard fought battle, probably on the Somme, some L.R.B. soldiers were coming out of the line in a rather dishevelled condition. They passed some men from a county battalion going up the line, one of whom shouted something along the lines of, "to think these mugs laid out two guineas to get this and we are getting it for free".

I may not have got the wording exact.
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