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“QUO FAS ET GLORIA DUCUNT”—HOW THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY FIGHTMr. Hamilton Fyfe, one of the special correspondents of th...
05/09/2026

“QUO FAS ET GLORIA DUCUNT”—HOW THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY FIGHT

Mr. Hamilton Fyfe, one of the special correspondents of the “Daily Mail,” described an incident in the course of his despatch concerning a Royal Field Artillery gunner. He says, “A half battery in rather an exposed position was galling the Germans by the accuracy of its aim. Several of their batteries made a combined attack on it. It was a fight between a David and half-a-dozen Goliaths. One by one its guns were silenced. The men who had been serving them lay dead around. At last only one man was left. He went on doing his best, working steadily and to all appearance calmly. He would have gone on till he dropped, for, although the Germans ceased fire for a few moments, they would have begun again and finished him off, in spite of their admiration for his pluck. But an officer called him away. ‘And you can bet,’ the narrator ej******ed to Mr. Fyfe, ‘that he was mighty sorry to go.’” The four men who work the guns of the Royal Field Artillery are ordinarily protected from r***e fire by the shield of the gun. It may be observed that the limbers are now drawn close up to the gun to facilitate rapid firing. The motto of the Royal Field Artillery is “Quo fas et gloria ducunt.” [Where right and glory lead].

"The Sphere", London, September 5th, 1914. Volume LVIII. No. 763.

DRAWN BY CHRISTOPHER CLARK

"The Graphic", Saturday, 5th June, 1915.
30/05/2026

"The Graphic", Saturday, 5th June, 1915.

The Graphic, Saturday, March 13th, 1915ONE OF THE GERMANS' KNAVIS TRICKSOUR MEN SURPRISED BY THE ENEMY DRESSED AS BRITIS...
07/03/2026

The Graphic, Saturday, March 13th, 1915

ONE OF THE GERMANS' KNAVIS TRICKS
OUR MEN SURPRISED BY THE ENEMY DRESSED AS BRITISH TROOPS.

This incident took place near Zonnebeke, in Flanders, and is thus described by Private T. Horton, of the Staffordshire Regiment: “The Germans occupied a small village about a mile from our trenches. We were told off as an advance guard to the bridge, and entered the village, which was littered with dead, am******on boxes, etc. On reaching the end of the street, the leading men of our party saw in front of them some seventy men dressed in khaki, and, naturally, taking them for English, shouted to us to hurry as we were reinforcing them. They immediately turned round and poured hot fire into us, which played havoc among our men.”

DRAWN BY FRANK DADD, R.I., FROM A DESCRIPTION BY PRIVATE T. HORTON, OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT

31/12/2025

NEW YEAR'S DAY WITH A SCOTTISH REGIMENT AT THE FRONT.

"The scene on New Year's Day in the billets of a Highland regiment is thus described by Mr. Philip Gibbs : " I heard the pipes to-day in one old barn, where a feast was on, not far from where the guns were shooting, and though I had had one good meal, I had to eat another, even to the Christmas plum-pudding, just to show there was no ill-feeling." The scene took place beneath high old beams which had grown in French forests five centuries ago. There was sword-dancing by kilted men as nimble as Nijinski, and old songs of Scotland, which were blown down the wind of France".

Source: "The Sphere" - Saturday 13 January 1917

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