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A first-hand regimental chronicle records the experiences of a small island battalion serving alongside larger British forces on the Western Front during 1917–1918. It combines day-to-day accounts of marches, billets, trench routines, and exhaustion with action-focused narratives of attacks and defensive operations at Cambrai, Marcoing, Masnières, and Passchendaele sectors, including sniping, counterattacks, and heavy casualties. Interspersed vignettes convey camaraderie, dark humour, hardship, and personal sacrifice while mapping the unit's movements and tactical engagements, producing an immediate, ground-level portrait of infantry life and the strain of sustained combat.
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