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The result was: promoted by Kimikel talk 01:44, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

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... that during the First World War the British army deployed companies of aliens to France?

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Source: Although all eight were described as "Alien" companies, the originals were formed from the sons of foreign nationals, however from 1918 actual foreign nationals were used to form three companies , see eg: "the Director of Labour in France was informed that all Russians and other aliens whom 'it was not desirable to retain with fighting units' were to be sent to the Middlesex Regiment base depot at Etaples. Apart from the Russians, they were to be posted to the Middlesex Infantry Labour Companies ... This enabled three more Middlesex Labour companies to be formed." from: {{cite book |last1=Messenger |first1=Charles |title=Call to Arms: The British Army 1914-18 |date=30 April 2015 |publisher=Orion |isbn=978-1-78022-759-7 |page=121 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Call_to_Arms/euyVBgAAQBAJ |language=en}}}}
ALT1: ... that during the First World War "the queerest battalion in the British Army" did no fighting? Source: "Only in September 1916 did one of the battalions (perhaps in ignorance of the second) become the focus of sarcastic press attention. Headlined 'The Kaiser's Own', the London Evening Standard ran an article about the 'Queerest Battalion in the British Army'" from: {{cite book |last1=Emden |first1=Richard van |title=Meeting the Enemy: The Human Face of the Great War |date=15 August 2013 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-1-4088-3981-2 |pages=246-249 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Meeting_the_Enemy/bPkteUumBvoC |language=en}} and "This unit is not a combatant unit" from: {{cite web |title=Middlesex Regiment, 30th Battalion : Volume 91: debated on Thursday 8 March 1917 |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1917-03-08/debates/425ac38b-c82f-4c6c-8eb9-2098cd93fcbb/MiddlesexRegiment30ThBattalion |website=Hansard |access-date=26 August 2024}}
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ivan Palmaw

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Dumelow (talk) 11:26, 9 September 2024 (UTC).

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|comments = I certainly think Alt 2 is more interesting as a hook, bot both are brilliant. What a fascinating read!

|sign = No Swan So Fine (talk) 21:16, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

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