I think both the battalions were truly superb, although, as a collector, from 1881 certainly prior to 1914, it was the 1st that received all the gunpowder, excepting the China business.
Both battalions would meet briefly on Malta in March 1914, the 1st only embarked for home only upon the 3rd of September soon to re embark to join the BEF, the world having gone mad, anyway a super photograph, Jerry, I like it very much.
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Originally Posted by JerryBB
On 16 May 1915 at Festubert, France, Company Sergeant-Major Barter, when in the first line of German trenches, called for volunteers to enable him to extend our line, and with the eight men who responded, he attacked the German position with bombs, capturing three German officers, 102 men and 500 yards of their trenches. He subsequently found and cut 11 of the enemy's mine leads situated about 20 yards apart.
He was a Cardiff boy as well, my home town
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