AFTER THREE YEARS
GHOSTS OF FRENCH'S "CONTEMPTIBLE ARMY." Of a party of British officers' arid men who, oil their way homo to England from Switzerland crossed the French frontier at 'dawn, liinety-fivo per cent, were members of the original Expeditionary Force which landed in France over three years ago. Grenadiers, Scots, Irish, and Coldstream Guards, Gordons, Royal Irish, Welsh. Fusiliers, and Munster. Fusiliers are among tho famous . regiments which were sending home representatives as rare survivors, of the retreat from Mons, and each of the battles of Le Cateau, Ypres, and the Aisnc.
"We are the ghosts of French's contemptible army," declared a one-legged Grenadier. Thrde sailors rescued from the destroyers - Nestor, Turbulent, and Nomad, 6uuk in the Jutland Battle, were in the party. One of.them was the solo survivor of tho crew of 100 on the Turbulent.
At the principal railway stations between Berne and Geneva great crowds of British and Swiss assembled to greet the British and. wish them a pleasant journey. 1
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 59, 3 December 1917, Page 4
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165AFTER THREE YEARS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 59, 3 December 1917, Page 4
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