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Title: Norman Ten Hundred
A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry

Author: A. Stanley Blicq

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Language: English

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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.
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