THE DECIMATED "GUARD."
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BORDEAUX, Sept. 20
Captured German officers.state that nearly all the companies of the Prussian Guard and the Tenth Army Corps have been reduced from 250 to
The First Battalion of the Guard is commanded by volunteers, because all the officers were lost.
The Guards during their retreat abandoned a general, a colonel, eight officers, and eight hundred men.
Of another Guards' regiment only five officers out of sixty remain. The first battalion lost all its officers.
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Northern Advocate, 21 September 1914, Page 5
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