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1 giorno fa · The Royal Dublin Fusiliers landed at "V" Beach and the Lancashire Fusiliers at "W" Beach in open boats, on a shore overlooked by dunes and obstructed with barbed wire. On both beaches, the Ottoman defenders occupied good defensive positions and inflicted many casualties on the British infantry as they landed.
- 19 February 1915 – 9 January 1916, (10 months, 3 weeks and 2 days)
- Ottoman victory
3 giorni fa · 125th (Lancashire Fusiliers) Brigade: 42nd (East Lancashire) Division: September 1916: Sinai and Palestine Campaign: First line Territorial brigade. Formed from Lancashire Fusiliers battalions. Also fought in the Gallipoli Campaign and on the Western Front. 126th (East Lancashire) Brigade: 42nd (East Lancashire) Division: September 1916
4 giorni fa · The 2nd V.B. Lancashire Fusiliers has its head quarters at Rochdale; there is a troop of yeomanry. Church. The church of ST. CHAD consists of chancel with north and south aisles, nave with north and south aisles, south porch and west tower, with a vestry at the west end of each aisle north and south of the tower.
2 giorni fa · Victoria Cross. The Victoria Cross ( VC) is the highest and most prestigious decoration of the British honours system. It is awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy" to members of the British Armed Forces and may be awarded posthumously.
3 giorni fa · A rifle corps was formed in 1859, and the town is now the head quarters of the 5th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (Territorials). (fn. 9) Bury has had its share in the great development of Lancashire manufactures, and here, as elsewhere, distress in times of bad trade produced disturbances, of which the most notable examples were the ...
3 giorni fa · Lancashire, administrative, geographic, and historical county in northwestern England. It is bounded to the north by Cumberland and Westmorland (in the present administrative county of Cumbria), to the east by Yorkshire, to the south by Cheshire, and to the west by the Irish Sea.
3 giorni fa · Further south it covers the parish and city of Lancaster, and the rest of the county as far south as Cockerham, where the hundred bordered that of Amounderness (volume 7). Victoria County History - Lancaster. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1914. This free content was digitised by double rekeying.
