1st / 8th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
Gallipoli
May 1915 - Dec 1915

In March 1917, all men serving with TA ( Territorial Forces ) Units were re-numbered.
Each Unit was given a block of numbers to allocate to their men.
The LFs were given the following blocks to Battalions respectively :-
200001 240000 5th BN Lancs Fusiliers
240001 280000 6th BN Lancs Fusiliers
280001 305000 7th BN Lancs Fusiliers
305001 330000 8th Bn Lancs Fusiliers.

Private Robert Gee, No. 2418, 1st/8th Battalion,
Lancashire Fusiliers.
Death Notice
He is buried in Greece

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GEE
Initials: R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Lancashire Fusiliers
Unit Text: 1st/8th Bn.
Date of Death: 28/08/1915
Service No: 2418
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. I. 149.
Cemetery: EAST MUDROS MILITARY CEMETERY
http://www.cwgc.org/search/certificate.aspx?casualty=626168

EAST MUDROS MILITARY CEMETERY Country: Greece Locality: unspecified Location Information: The Cemetery is on the Greek island of Limnos in the north-east Aegean Sea. It is situated on rising ground on the north east side of the village of Mudros and is about 1 kilometre out of the village, next to the Greek Civil Cemetery. Mudros is on the east side of Mudros Bay, on the way to Kaminia village. Historical Information: Because of its position, the island of Lemnos played an important part in the campaigns against Turkey during the First World War. It was occupied by a force of marines on 23 February 1915 in preparation for the military attack on Gallipoli, and Mudros became a considerable Allied camp. The 1st and 3rd Canadian Stationary Hospitals, the 3rd Australian General Hospital and other medical units were stationed on both sides of Mudros bay and a considerable Egyptian Labour Corps detachment was employed. After the evacuation of Gallipoli, a garrison remained on the island and the 1st Royal Naval Brigade was on Lemnos, Imbros and Tenedos for the first few months of 1916. On 30 October 1918, the Armistice between the Entente Powers and Turkey was signed at Mudros. East Mudros Military Cemetery was begun in April 1915 and used until September 1919. It contains 885 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 86 of them unidentified, and one Second World War burial. There are also seven non war naval graves and 32 burials of other nationalities in the cemetery, 29 of them Russians who died in the evacuation of Novorossisk in 1921, who are remembered on a memorial plaque set into the boundary wall.

3164 Pte David Melling
captured Achi Baba 7th August 1915
wounded bullet entered temple and shattered both eyes

Pte 1949 Harold Harvey of 1st/8th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers
who died on 18th December 1916. He is buried in Salford (Agecoft) Cemetery.
The 1/8th Bn was a Territorial Bn, raised in Salford. The Bn landed in Egypt 25th September 1914. Landed on Gallipoli on 5th May 1915, Landed on Mudros and proiceeded to Egypt on 28th December 1915.
Pte Harvey was evacuated to Britain and died of his wounds on 18th December 1916.