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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:48:36 +0100
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Subject: [WW1] Re: GREATWAR-D Digest V01 #262


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> > Subject: [WW1] East Lancs Regiment.
> > Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 20:21:28 +0100
> > From: "Ken Sutcliffe" <>
> > To:
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> > Good Evening,
> >
> > I hope that I can tap in to the expertise of members of this list as my
own knowledge of the War is not enough to enable me to unravel my
grandfather's record. I know only three things:
> >
> > My mother's birth certificate in 1915 describes him as a Private in the
East Lancs Regiment and gives his number.
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> > I have a photograph of him in Army Tropical uniform.
> >
> > He apparently said that he had walked into Greece without boots.
> >
> > Where does this place him? Gallipoli? Salonika? Can someone tell me if
the East Lancs took part in either of these campaigns?
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> Ken - the 9th Battalion, part of the 65th Brigade and 22nd Division,
> gets a few mentions in Falls, Military Operations Macedonia. The first
> mention of the 65th Brigade is on 7th Dec 1915, when they went up
> from Salonika to Dojran to support the retreat from Serbia. They were
> all back in Greece by the early hours of the 12th December.
> That's no doubt where the walking into Greece without boots bit comes
> from, and it was in the middle of a very severe winter,
> too. Just shortly before, on the night of the 10th November, the 10th
> Irish Division was caught out in a storm, also in tropical gear, and in
> all some 23 officers and 1663 men of the
> division had to be evacuated to Salonika on account of complete
> collapse, frost-bite or general debility.
> The 22nd Division (including your 9th East Lancs) arrived in Salonika
> from the Western Front during November, so they were in action
> reasonably quickly. They were a division of the New Army, formed in
> September 1914 and sent to France a year later. They had not taken part
> in a battle before going to Salonika, but "were composed of good,
> well-trained young troops."
> Charlie
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