1st /7th Lancashire Fusiliers
Gallipoli. May to December 1915 Part of 125 Brigade 42nd Division 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 Fusilier. |
TRANSCRIPTION OF WW1 MILITARY RECORD
WILLIAM HERBERT RIMMER Regimental Number: 281143 Rank: Private to Lance Corporal Regiment: 1/7th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers Enlisted: 20 April 1915 Service Overseas: Egypt, Gallipoli, and in France where he was engaged in various actions on the Western Front, including, in 1917, the Third Battle of Ypres i.e. Passchendaele) Discharged: 6 August 1919 Cause of Discharged: Kings Regulation, Para 392 xvi (Sickness/Injury) Medals/Badges: Allied Victory Medal His discharge from the army because of sickness/injury was recognised by the award of the Silver War Badge. This was in the form of a broach that could be worn to indicate that he was discharged
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Lieutenant R. W. A. Usher, Lancashire Fusiliers,
Twice wounded at Gallipoli and killed in action in France, 2 May 1917, being his Battalion’s first casualty on the Western Front 1914-15 STAR; BRITISHWAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Lieut. R. W. A. Usher.); MEMORIAL PLAQUE (Robert William Armitage Usher);Robert William ‘Billy’ Armitage Usher, of Bolton-le-Sands, Lancashire, was born on 14 April 1889 and educated at Seafield School, Lytham, Lancashire, and at Wakefield Grammar School, Yorkshire, where he was a school prefect, where he subsequently worked as a Laboratory Assistant. On the outbreak of the Great War he attested for the Manchester Regiment, and was mobilised on 4 August 1914, but owing to sickness did not accompany them to Egypt that year. Commissioned instead as a Second Lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers, 16 January 1915, he joined the 1st/7th Battalion in Egypt in early 1915, before accompanying the Battalion to Gallipoli, 1 May 1915. ‘Twice he was wounded in the Gallipoli Expedition, and, subsequently, nearly died of sunstroke and exhaustion in the Egyptian desert. Returning home he was injured in the torpedoing of the Lanfranc’ (Obituary in the Wakefield Grammar School magazine, Summer Term 1917 refers). One of his wounds possibly came at the Battle of Krithia Vineyard, 7 August 1915, where the fighting was ‘a singularly brainless and suicidal type of warfare’, and out of a strength of 410 officers and men only 139 were unscathed
when they were relieved, and Usher lost the sight in his left-eye. He subsequently served in the Sinai campaign, and took part in the Battle of Romani, 4 August 1916, before accompanying the Battalion to France in February 1917. He was killed in action by a shell on 2 May 1917, whilst in command of a Wiring Party in the front line near Lempire, along with two of his men, who were the first casualties in the Battalion when on the Western Front, and is buried in Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery, Somme, France.
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Captain William Kelly was the Battalion
Scout officer for the 1/7th Lancashire Fusiliers.
He was wounded at Gallipoli on the 6th May 1915 |
John Francis Kelly Rank: Private Number 4648 Name of Rgt or Ship: Lancashire Fusiliers Died: 26/04/1916 Age: 27 Country of burial: U.K. Cemetery or Memorial: Salford (Weaste) Cem Extra Information: The son of Henry & Ellen Kelly. Murdered by Private Walter Taylor at the Cross Lane
Barracks, Salford. The first witness at the inquest into his death was
his sister - Margaret Kelly, 38 Armitage Street, Patricroft. She stated
that her deceased brother was a 27 year old Iron Worker who enlisted seven
years ago in the 7th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. He had seen actice
service at the Dardenelles and had come She said that he had mentioned the name, Walter Taylor
to her and said that he was a sailor, he was a fine man, but very quiet.
She had Sergeant Roger Roberts giving evidence stated that
the prisoner had been reported as being absent from parade and that Captain
Cartwright had ordered that he be put into the guardroom until he had
chance to deal with him. The prisoner was The Post Mortem revealed that Private Kelly's throat had been cut from ear to ear, inflicted with six separate strokes of a knife, so deep that it had gone through to his vertebrae and had cut through all his blood vessels. The Jury's verdict was "Wilfull Murder" and Walter Taylor was committed for trial. However the doctors at Strangeways Prison where he was held decided that he was insane and he was detained at"His Majesty's Pleasure". A description of his funeral; The Funeral of the victim of the Barracks Tragedytook
place on Monday at Weaste Cemetery, when the proceedings were distinguished
by military honours of a very impressive character. Apart from the relatives
of the deceased from 150 to 200 uniformed men attended in marching order
accompanied by the Royal Engineers East Lancashire Band. As the cortège
wended its way to the cemetery huge masses of silent witnesses assembled
along the whole of the route. The cemetery, however, was crowded with
people. As the last |