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NORMAN TEN HUNDRED
- BY - A. Stanley Blicq. A Record of the —— 1st (SERVICE) Bn. ROYAL GUERNSEY LIGHT INFANTRY Guernsey: Printed at The Guernsey Press Co., Ltd., Smith Street and Le Marchant Street. [St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands]1920. |
This modest work is dedicated to:
Mrs. P. EREAUX,
in appreciation of her genial personality,
strong moral courage and unhesitating
adherence to duty as she conceived it.
And also to:
GEORGE W. CLARKE, Esq.,
in memory of those Great Days when
we marched the Long Trail together;
shared the same sorrows, the same mirth;
—and now the same memories, far away,
indistinct; laughter merged with the
tears.
A. STANLEY BLICQ.
Guernsey, 1920.
NORMAN TEN HUNDRED.
A BATTALION OF THE OLDEST AND SMALLEST
DEMOCRACY IN THE WORLD.
Guernsey—named Sarnia by the Romans—one of the Channel Isles from out the sun swathed romance of whose shores rallied a fierce band of Norman warriors to the aid of their Duke, William of Normandy; afterwards the Conqueror, at Hastings, 1066. In reward for their valour William granted the Isles the independence they maintain to this day. From Guernsey something approaching 7,000 men have gone out into the Great Undertaking. The Norman Ten Hundred is the 1st Royal Guernsey Light Infantry offered by the States of Guernsey for active participation side by side with the Mother Country's troops in any of the fighting areas. The narrative is authentic.