A GANG OF THE BRITISH NAVVIES’ BATTALION WORKING “SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE.” The accounts from the official correspondents at the front give a thrilling description of how the Navvies’ Battalion repelled a Hun attack. The Germans were advancing after exploding a mine. They were met by a company of Welsh Fusiliers and by a party of navvies who chanced to be working in the vicinity. These latter, according to the official correspondents’ account, “armed with picks and shovels, laid about them vigorously, and the enemy was shortly afterwards forced to retire in ignominy.”

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1374, 24 August 1916, Page 14

A GANG OF THE BRITISH NAVVIES’ BATTALION WORKING “SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE.” The accounts from the official correspondents at the front give a thrilling description of how the Navvies’ Battalion repelled a Hun attack. The Germans were advancing after exploding a mine. They were met by a company of Welsh Fusiliers and by a party of navvies who chanced to be working in the vicinity. These latter, according to the official correspondents’ account, “armed with picks and shovels, laid about them vigorously, and the enemy was shortly afterwards forced to retire in ignominy.”