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
honourably because of an injury/sickness that made him unfit for further military service. British War Medal
Silver War Badge. Issued 8 April 1920. Badge No. 470089
Note:

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




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.




Captain William Kelly was the Battalion Scout officer for the 1/7th Lancashire Fusiliers.
He was wounded at Gallipoli on the 6th May 1915




The chap in the middle is 1962 Pte George Jackson.
He joined the 1/7th LFs in 1911, went to gallipoli witgh them and was wounded on the 6/ 7th August 1915.
He recovered and was posted to the Labour Corps as 542248.

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
home last January as a time-expired man and had then left the Army. He went back to his old
trade, but after only one month, he re-enlisted in the 7th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. He was, she said, in good health when she last saw him when he left her home on the 26th April stating that he would be back for dinner at 12.45. He was going to the Hippodrome Theatre that night and had booked seats. The Judge then asked her if her brother was in possession of any money, to which she replied that he was as she had asked him for some money before he left and she saw them when he opened his purse. She stated that he
owned a knife that was quite new as it was given to him with his uniform on the morning he re-enlisted.

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
identified her brothers body at the Silk Street, Mortuary.

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
not then under arrest and Private John Kelly had been detailed to see that he did not leave the Barracks. He stated that when he was returning from his own dinner at 14.15 hrs, he had met the prisoner casually walking along Cross Street with his hands behind his back. He asked why he was out of the Barracks and was told the the man guarding him had let him out for some fresh air.
Together with a Corporal Cooper, he then went to the guardroom at 14.45 hrs and found Private Kelly's body - his throat had been cut and he was lying on his back in a pool of blood around his shoulders. He was asked if the prisoner had recently received any pay, to which he replied - yes, 6/- .

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
rights were administered and the coffin was lowered into the grave the Royal Engineers Band played the Dead March in “Saul”. The last
post was afterwards sounded and three volleys were fired from fourteen or fifteen rifles. A magnificent wreath from the Cross Lane Barracks represented the Union Jack and bore the Regimental Colours. The ceremony of most impressive character and hardly a person present succeeded in suppressing vivid signs of emotion.