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Where all units have acted splendidly one may yet fairly
single out the Naval Division for special mention. It was they who took the German front line from Beaumont-Hamel to the Ancre, and, later on, the village of Beaucourt. What makes the heroism and fine soldiering of the Naval Division so particularly gratifying is that they never got their chance either at Antwerp or even at Gallipoli. Now they have fully come by their own as land fighters. No one will ever want to chaff them again, though it was always very kindly chaff, about their strange seafaring ways—their methods of saluting, their whistles instead of words of command, and their other maritime habits.
