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Deeds of heroism and bravery : the book of heroes and personal daring

Introduction : Bravery / by Rupert Hughes -- The soldier (poem) / by Rupert Brooke -- [pt. 1] FIELD AND TRENCH ORDEALS -- "And a few marines" : eyewitness account of the Belleau Wood action in the Marne Salient beginning June 6th, 1918 -- "Forward, lancers!" : and Captain Grenfell's cavalry troops lived over "the Charge of the Light Brigade" -- An unparalled hero : the Church elder and champion turkey-shooter who killed 25 Germans and captured a machine gun battalion -- The nemesis of flame : a vision of inferno from which even a Dante would have shrunk--"what hell must be like" -- He jests at scars : a bomb thrower and tank master who "paid his way in Huns" -- Epic of the Foreign Legion : its wonderful story will stand as one of the vital things of the war -- "Doc" of the Fifth : the conversion of the Rev. J. H. Clifford, "Y" worker, into a hero among marines -- Couldn't stop them : thro' Turkish shells and barbed-wire sea they landed at Gallipoli -- One of our boys : a California youth of heroic soul who gave his life to England -- Guthrie of the Kilties : the first Canadian to enlist came back with scars of twenty-two wounds -- Not so unspeakable : a Turk whose sense of humor ma

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