This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. 23rd Battalion, The Kings, (Liverpool Regiment). Company parade. N.E. That month, the enlisted men of the 8th 1916 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2530) [WO95/2530] on Amazon.com. Heart trouble kept him on home service until he was transferred to the Leicesters in 1916 and sent to France. The right flank giving way was the cause of the Battn falling back and also the unfortunate word "retire" undoubtedly passed along from the right. (d.17th Apr 1918), Chaplin Arthur. Ballard Leonard George. 1/5th BattalionAugust 1914 : in Loughborough. 6th Infantry Labour Company., Devonshire Regiment. 6th Battalion,King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. The regiment's museum is located at the Fort York Armoury. The trenches were heavily shelled by the Germans. On 1 September 1916, 4th absorbed 5th. John Ebenezar Stewart MC, killed 28 April 1918. a tactical unit: The 8th Battalion's service in The Great War. 10th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. 8th Battalion lost over 300 men in killed, wounded and missing that day. Lady Ursula Isabel Manners was born 8th November 1916, being the elder daughter of five children . Corporal: 54th Battalion, AIF: First World War: 1-2 September 1918* Cecil Buckley: Lieutenant: HMS Miranda: Crimean War: 29 May 1855 John Buckley: Assistant Commissary Warwick. In January 1918 it went to 207th Brigade of 69th Division at Clipstone Camp but by April 1918 had moved to Thoresby. During the night the Batt left the trench and marched to SENLIS and bivouacked. 7th Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Son of Agnes and the late Samuel Rhodes, of Hill Park, Greenodd, Ulverston. 2nd/5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Initially, serving with service number 43343 in the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment later transferring to the 8th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment. All companies gained their objectives with little resistance. Part of Lincoln and Leicester Brigade, North Midland Division. Died 1916. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. 8th Battalion, The Kings, (Liverpool Regiment). 7th July : Brigade transferred to 21st Division. I regret to have to inform you that your husband was wounded on July 3rd at La Boisselle. 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. The Brigade was inspected by the Divisional General during the afternoon. A-G. 10h Battalion, Lincolnshire Regient. Cpl. 19th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Pte. 4th Battalion, North Staffordhire Regiment. Leicestershire Regiment 1914-1918. in the Great War. Soon moved to Luton and by November 1914 was at Bishops Stortford.Landed at Le Havre 28 February 1915.Record same as 1/4th Bn. i/c Infantry Records, Transferred to 8th Battalion, joining in the field on 27th November 1917, he was wounded in action on 22nd March 1918. 6th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, (N&D Reg). Road to Hiroshima Kenneth Harrison WW2 4th Anti Tank Regiment 8th Division. Further attack was launched against village of Oostaverne and Odonto Trench. 8 April 1916 : became 4th and 5th Reserve Battalions and by now were at Grantham. Charles is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial. Spink currently holds three medal auctions a year, in April, July, and November. Please note we currently have a massive backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. It is interesting to note that the brothers were mobilsed into different regiments, Walter in the Hampshire Regiment and Samuel in the Gloucestershire Regiment. 7th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. L-Z. The German rifle & machine gun fire was not particularly severe and had communication with the right and left been kept up throughout the attack would have been successful. We add around 200,000 new records each month. Infantry Record Office WW1 Canadian First . I am looking for any information regarding the location and activity of the 8th Battalion East Surrey Regiment on the 1st July 1916. Part of 16th Brigade, 6th Division.Moved on 19 August 1914 to Cambridge and landed at St Nazaire on 10 September 1914.17 November 1915 : transferred to 71st Brigade in same Division. 10th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. 8th Battalion, the Bedfordshire Regiment. 8th Battalion, Canadian Expedtionary Force: Amiens, . 5th Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry. 2nd Battalion, The Buffs, (East Kent Regiment). 6th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. He had joined the Bedfordshire Regiment at the outbreak of war, but was later transferred to the Leicesters. He was aged 34. Cpl. Any articles of private property left by missing soldiers which are found are forwarded to this Office, but they cannot be disposed of until authority is received from the War Office. His brother Private, 1836 Edward Taylor of the 8th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment died 19-04-1916 aged 18 & is buried at Essex Farm Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.. Stone Inscription :- "Gone But Not Forgotten". 7th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. 12th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. 6th Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry. The Cheshire Regt relieved us in the captured trenches. 7 DISTRICT. 7th Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment. Want to find out more about your relative's service? I am returning to you the letters that have come, as I did not know his address and it would be a long time before they reached him. Now I have to return to France to find where the 8th Gloucesters reinforced the weakened line at St Quentin. to arms' for another 100,000 men to leave their civilian lives and enlist Killed in action 9th October 1917.Son of Lillian Beatrice Wildgoose (now wife of John Henry Bennett). Tyne Cot memorial panels 85-86, 8th Border Regiment (attd. n a PUBLIC LIBRARY Presented to the Boston Public Library by Mrs. Rae Walton 21 Terrace Avenue Newton, MA 02161-1426 SPR^l ^^^^^^^B ^ The Ancestry of Thomas DeMotte Wa The Battalion moved to MARTINSAART WOOD at 11am. 11th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. 1st Battalion, Royal Marine Light Infantry. They were Captain Adrian Carton de Wiart and Acting Captain Manley James. and marked outside, Effects. 6th Battalion, The Kings, (Liverpool Regiment). 8th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Das knigliche Berkshire-Regiment von Gale & Polden. to help with the costs of keeping the site running. A letter from Capt J. Abbott to widow Alice at 93 Butlin Road, Luton, said nothing had been heard of her husband since he went into action on May 3rd. Want to know what life was like during the Great War? platoon at this time were sent up, no reinforcements had arrived from the reserve to take our place. 5th Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment. 12th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Samuel fought in The Battles of the Somme, 1916; operations on the Ancre, 1917; the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, 1917; flanking attacks in Battle of Arras (Bullecourt and Lagnicourt), 1917; Third Battles of Ypres, 1917; First Battles of the Somme, 1918; the advance in Flanders, 1918 and at Ypres and Cambrai, at Polygon Wood and the Menin Road, at Passchendaele and at Saint Quentin. 8th Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment. 1st/5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. It was owing in a great measure to his dauntless courage and inspiring example that a serious reverse was averted. 12th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Each company had two platoons in line crossing on a front of some 150 or 200 yards followed by the other two platoons. 9th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles. October 1916 : landed in France, moved to Third Army. Died of woundson the 29th September1916 - Age 22, Killed in actionon the 15thJuly 1916 - Age 46, Died of woundson the 26th July1916 - Age 21, Rest in peacein Wimereux CommunalCemetery, Killed in actionon the 25th September1916 - Age 27, Died of woundson the 7th November1916 - Age 28, Died of woundson the 29th September1916 - Age 32, Killed in actionon the 25th September1916 - Age 22, Died of woundson the 15th July1916 - Age 25, Killed in actionon the 15thJuly 1916 - Age 18, Died of woundson the 3rdOctober1916 - Age 27, Killed in actionon the 25th September1916 - Age 38, Died of woundson the 23rdJuly1916 - Age 33, Died of woundson the 3rdOctober1916 - Age 44, Killed in actionon the 15thJuly 1916 - Age 27, Died of woundson the 1stOctober1916 - Age 23, Died of woundson the 16thJuly 1916- Age 40, Killed in actionon the 30thJuly 1916 - Age 22, Rest in peacein Guillemont RoadCemetery, Killed in actionon the 25th September1916 - Age 36, Died of woundson the 13thJuly 1916- Age 23, Died of woundson the 29th October1916 - Age 22. 9th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Smith (1931) there were 2,977,801 Killed in action 29th October 1917. . Up to 2 Militia and Special Reserve Battalions Up to 4 Territorial and Volunteer Battalions This battalion was made up of men from the old Worcestershire Rifle Volunteer Corps, which had been established in 1860 (these Rifle Volunteer Corps had become the 2nd Volunteer Battalion by 1883). 4th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. 6th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. They were returned to England, where on 20 June 1918 they joined the 14th (Service) Battalion. On 25th of September 1916 Charles was admitted to No 64 Field Ambulance with debitity and a leg injury. L-Z. L-Cpl Sidney Thomas Andrews, 33003, 8th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, was listed killed in action in France on May 3rd, 1917, after at first being reported missing. 7th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Rest in peace in Heilly Station Cemetery . Touch was kept with the Cheshires by means of runners. 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