Well, old Hindenburg will call in vain now for his Cockchafers, the Guard fusilier Regiment of the 3rd Guards Division, for nearly six hundred of them are in our hands and others lie dead upon the ground near Pilkem.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
One of the killed was a woman whose son was a Dublin fusilier.
"John Redmond's Last Years"
Stephen Gwynn
Immediately after this an Inniskilling fusilier raced Thomson and myself over these terrible salt pits to the sea edge where an unconscious man was lying, having been dragged out of the water after disappearing like a stone, although said to be a strong swimmer.
"The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde""
George Davidson