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Re(3): A White Christmas?
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Posted on December 6, 2024 at 18:47:07 by Geoff Pycroft

Vince

Your post set me off on a little research to find out where each of the LF Battalions were on that first Christmas Day (1914) of the Great War. Their actions in the years thereafter of course encompassed the Western Front, the Balkans and Middle East.   


1st Battalion.

From October to December 1914 they were in Aden. The following year they were in the rest area at X Beach, Helles, from 18th to 31st December. They had been landed at W Beach (Lancashire Landings ) on 25th January 1915.


2nd Battalion.  

24th to 27th December 1914 Trenches, Le Touquet


1/5th Battalion. 

9th September 1914 SS Neuralia to Alexandria. 

8th May, 1915 Landed W and Y Beach, Helles

24th to 27th December 1915 Eski Line East, Krithia Nullah


2/5th Battalion 

19th to 31st December 1914 Southport 

21st to 31st December 1915 Trenches, Thiepval Wood


3/5th Battalion 

Formed at Bury October 1914

December 31st Bury

March to 31st December 1915 Colchester

February 1917 to the Western Front by SS Queen Alexandra and SS Manchester Importer

1917 23rd December o 31st December at Stapel, Western Front 


1/6th Battalion 

12th December 1914 to 31st December 1914 Citadel, Cairo


2/6th Battalion 

13th October 1914 to 31st December 1914 Southport 


1/7th Battalion 

26th September 1914 to 25th December 1914 enroute to Alexandria aboard SS Saturnua. Docjed 26th December 1914


2/7th Battalion 

13th October 1914 to 31st December 1914 South3


1/8th Battalion 

10th September 1914 enroute to Alexandria aboard the SS Neuralia. Landed 25th December 1914


2/8th Battalion 

13th October 1914 to 31st December 1914 Southport 


9th Battalion 

1914 various locations in England 

22nd December 1915 to 31st December 1915 Imbros, Balkans 


10th Battalion 

30th November 1914 to 31st December 1914 Wimborne, Dorset


11th Battalion 

September 1914 to 31st December 1914 Codfird, Wiltshire. 


12th Battalion 

1914 Seaford, Eastbourne 


15th Battalion 

9th September 1914 to 28th December 1914 Salford 


16th Battalion 

5th November 1914 to 31st December 1914 Salford


17th Battalion 

Raised 2nd January 1915


18th Battalion 

Raised 15th January 1915


19th Battalion 

Raisec at Salford 11fh February 1915


20th Battalion 

Raised 23rd March 1915


23rd Battalion 

Not raised until May 1918

Originally named 23rd (Garrison) Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers .

The title Garrison dropped on 17th July 1918


  



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