November 6, 1914

Daily Record

BUSY SPORTSMEN SOLDIERS

(2) Private C. Armstrong, a Cambridge Blue, now with the Sportsman’s Battalion in camp, carrying firewood. (3) Sportsmen recruits cleaning up the huts.

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SPORTSMAN T. ATKINS

Otherwise Private C. Armstrong, of the Sportsman’s Battalion, now in camp at Hornchurch. He is an old Cambridge running Blue

[Picture referenced from “The men of Great St Mary's Cambridge in the Great War”]

The Times

SPORTSMAN’S BATTALION. – NOTICE to the PUBLIC. – The Administration Department of this Battalion remains at the Hotel Cecil until further notice. – Address all communications and inquiries to Chief Recruiting Officer, Sportsman’s Battalion, Hotel Cecil. Hours 10 to 5.

Aberdeen Weekly Journal

SPORTSMEN ANSWER COUNTRY’S CALL.

Members of the Sportsman’s Battalion paraded outside the Hotel Cecil, London. All members of the battalion have been sportsmen or athletes.