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From: "ntlworld-Mail" <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] Royal Fusiliers
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 22:12:01 +0100
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Hi Iain
>Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 5:06 AM
>
> Having quoted back my entire message, you then misquote me. The man's
> regiment was The Royal Fusiliers *City of London Regiment) and he serving
> in the 8th Battalion of that regiment when he died. There is no such
> regiment as the "King's Fusiliers". Accuracy is important here because
> there were several fusilier regiments at the time and all of them, as
> well the rest of the British Army owed loyalty to the sovereign.

Please accept my apologies for mis-quoting the regiment. I have been
reading too much! I will take more care in reading my e-mails before
hitting the send button.
>
> Second, I said that the 2nd Battalion embarked from Avonmouth (which is
> near Bristol) in March 1915. That battalion did not land on Gallipoli
> until 24 April where it was on operations until January 1916.

Thank you for clarifying the dates and locations.
>
> You say that he joined the 2nd Battalion on 20 July. So he would have
been
> a reinforcement draft sent out from UK to replace the men killed or
wounded
> in the first months of the Gallipoli operation. His training, possibly in
> the 5th or 6th Battalions which were reserve battalions in the UK could
> have been 12 weeks or more. But it is difficult to speculate on limited
> facts. The rush of volunteers was intense in August and September 1914
but
> it continued apace well into 1915. [Conscription was not introduced until
> 1916.]

Thank you for this detail, I only wish that I had more details about my
great-grandfather's service. The training the men received seems awfully
short, but the needs of the time must have made an intensive training period
imperative.

Thank you for your help and time.

Michelle


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