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  • Aluminium Christmas Trees: The 25th Royal Fusiliers — or, to use the full title, the 25th (Frontiersmen) Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) — really existed and actually did consist largely (but not entirely) of older men who hailed from diverse backgrounds and varied occupations, hence its nickname of "The Old and the Bold". The entry for this unit on the Other Wiki states that their ranks included "English big-game hunters, a British millionaire, several American cowboys, a Scottish light-house keeper, a naturalist, a circus clown, an Arctic explorer, an opera singer, a photographer, and a lion tamer". Formed in February 1915, it served in the East African theatre and was disbanded in June 1918. Frederick Selous, who was in his sixties when World War I started and had initially been rejected by the British Army on account of his age, rose to the rank of Captain, was awarded the DSO note  and was killed in action in January 1917.

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