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23rd (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) (1st Sportsman's)
23rd (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) (1st Sportsman's)
4,987 men served on the effective strength of the 23rd Royal Fusiliers after it proceeded overseas to France on 15th November 1915. 3,241 became casualties, of whom 594 died and another 350 were missing. It was originally recruited at the Hotel Cecil in London by Mrs E. Cunliffe-Owen, with a special War Office dispensation to form a unit from men up to the age of 45, who were then over the formal enlistment age, but who were fit and hard because they were sportsmen. In the first year while the Battalion was training at Hornchurch, it also had a huge turnover of men who received commissions in other units, not counted in the totals above. For more detail, see the History: THE 23rd (SERVICE) BATTALION ROYAL FUSILIERS (FIRST SPORTSMAN'S) A RECORD OF ITS SERVICES IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1919 BY FRED. W. WARD (A Second Sportsman's Battalion was soon formed, it was numbered the 24th Royal Fusiliers, and the SPTS service number also extended to the 30th (Reserve) Battalion.) http://sportsmansgazette.blogspot.co.uk/ is a great online resource to explore
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British Army K/116 Private Royal Fusiliers 22nd Battalion
British Army K/116 Lance Corporal Royal Fusiliers 23rd Battalion
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British Army Spts/1657 Serjeant Royal Fusiliers 23rd Battalion
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British Army GS/114832 Private Royal Fusiliers 23rd Battalion
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Died 1917
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British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Fusiliers
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Born 1892
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British Army STK/2066 Private Royal Fusiliers (City Of London Regiment) 10th and 23rd Battalions
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Born 1891
Died 1916
British Army Spts/5345 Private London Regiment 10th battalion, royal fusiliers (city of lond Battalion
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British Army Spts/5437 Private Royal Fusiliers
British Army 74459 Private Royal Defence Corps
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Born 1891
Died 1916
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Born 1898
Died 1964
British Army Spts/1859 Private Royal Fusiliers 23rd Battalion
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