... type of bland, boring and dull personality. Bill Roache was at the start of an acting career following five years in the Royal Fusiliers, and was uncertain about what the future held. He had been at Granada Studios in Manchester, making a film based on the ...

... Watsonian First XV volunteered for one of the local territorial infantry battalions, the 9th Royal Scots and the London-based Royal Fusiliers boasted two Sportsmen's Battalions - and sport became an important motif in maintaining morale. When dawn broke, a sudden ...

... the 1917 letter of mourning which bears the words Prisoner of War addressed to Captain Victor Olphest, Ist Battalion, Royal Fusiliers at a camp in Germany. It has a price tag at this sale of £6O-£80? One could imagine a Miss Marple or Monsieur Poirot ...