This applies to all ranks, from brigadier down to the ordinary corporal or fusilier.
When the fusilier was thought to be a deserter, the clerk informed the police.
Similarly, with regard to the fusilier that he mentioned, that soldier is the subject of a process that could lead to criminal prosecutions.
They are fireside fusiliers par excellence.
The fusilier was asked to go along with them to substantiate his reason for absence, and he did so to their satisfaction.
I find that rather surprising, and it illustrates the events that surrounded the fusilier at that time.
After seven days' detention the battledress was produced again and the unfortunate fusilier, in his grey civilian suit and getting rather battered from detention in the cells, again refused.
He said it would be a sensible thing if the fusilier went off and put on the battledress, and then there would be no more trouble about it.
