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Field Service Message Book marked "CQMS Bateman Notes etc. In the field with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force Palestine and Syria 1918". Also contains loose message sheets, receipts for prisoners of war and notes on training Infantary which includes: "RUB the following points into EVERY ONE of your N.C.O.'s:- 1. If the line advances steadily, the enemy will not wait. 2. The fight is decided at thirty yards, just before the charge. 3. A solid, steady front at thirty yards settles the whole thing. 4. You will then already have "put the wind up" the Hun, and HE WILL GO when you YELL and charge. 5. Bayonet him IN THE KIDNEYS as he goes. 6. DON'T FORGET THE BULLET IN YOUR RIFLE."

1918

From: 1918 To: 1918

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Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment, Royal Anglian Regiment, Bedfordshire Regiment, service personnel, overseas (WW1), prisoners of war, Germans, land weaponry, Palestine, Syria, Egypt, army locations in WW1 Near East