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Posted: 19 Oct 2015 03:07 PM PDT
A hundred years ago, as the First World War raged, combatants on all sides were facing a far more serious muddy and bloody ordeal. But in training camps and elsewhere there was still some cross country running...
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| Cross Country Race, Somerset Light Infantry 1918 |
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| Southern Cross Country Association 1916 (ebay) |
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flipside of above Southern Counties medal - 18 November 1916, Bandsman B. Mayson, 11th Reserve Battalion
- 5 mile race at Shorncliffe (barracks near Folksestone, Kent) |
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| Allied cross-country race at the Auteuil racecourse. The mound. Paris, on October 29, 1916. Photograph published in the newspaper "Excelsior" of Monday, October 30, 1916. |
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