The Archive · 1914

Sir John French to His Troops

London, Nov. 27.

Four men-of-war which were *n-gaged in the bombardment of Zeebrugge, on the Belgian coast, have retuned to port, the object: of their operations having been accomplished.

Field-Marshal Sir John French, Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Forces on the Continent, in an Army Order issued on the sind, says: "Your fighting qualities, courage and endurance have been subjected to most trying and severe tests. You have proved yourselves worthy descendants of the British soldiers of the past and have added lustre to your raagni-

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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