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  • Surreys relieved them theyre always trying to show it to you every time nearly I passed outside the mens greenhouse near the Harcourt street station just to try some fellow or other trying to catch my eye as if it was I of the 7 wonders of the world O and the stink of those rotten places the night coming home with Poldy after the

    Ulysses 2003

  • On the 16th, Estcourt was reinforced by the 2nd Queen's and 2nd East Surreys of General

    The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer

  • So I began an immediate campaign for transfer back to the Surreys.

    A Yankee in the Trenches Robert Derby Holmes

  • His successor, E.M. Woulfe-Flanagan, came from the East Surreys.

    The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose

  • The Machine Gun Section went in the next morning, two days ahead of the infantry, and the East Surreys remained during the two days to show us the ropes.

    The Emma Gees Herbert Wes McBride

  • We learned that the trench by which we were going in was named Surrey Lane, in honor of the West Surreys who constructed it.

    The Emma Gees Herbert Wes McBride

  • He was with the Battalion during most of its training at Gailes and Troon, and before embarking for Service in France was gazetted as Major in the 19th H.L.I. He served with the same rank in the East Surreys till invalided home in March, 1917.

    The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 John W. [Editor] Arthur

  • The machine gun officer of the outgoing Surreys had begun to develop some ideas of his own as to the feasibility of strafing enemy transports and dumps at night and had selected a tentative position behind a slight crest, about one hundred and fifty yards N.E. of "In den Kraatenberg Cabaret" and immediately adjacent to a disused communication trench called "Plum Avenue."

    The Emma Gees Herbert Wes McBride

  • Just about five o'clock, however, it suddenly stopped, and I realised with a thumping heart that the Australians and Kents and Surreys were going over the parapet at Pozières.

    The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

  • On the western side of Arras there were field sports by London men, and Surreys, Buffs, Sussex, Norfolks, Suffolks, and Devons.

    Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919

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