November 8, 1915 Attention!!!! listen up magets we are about to go to war o hey my name Major W. D. Neish and i just sent off the first Jamaican contingent to serve in the First World War. Some of you may be killed, many will be wounded, but in bidding you farewell, I hope that those who fall may fall gloriously, their faces to the foe, victory gleaming on their bayonets. band play "Soldiers of the King," will we pray for a safe return. me and my 500 sailed of. The world had been at war for over a year.
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