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8th Battalion, Border Regiment    8th (Service) Battalion, The Border Regiment was raised in Carlisle in September 1914 as part of Kitcheners Third New Army. They joined 75th Brigade, 25th Division and moved to Codford for training in November 1914, being billeted in Boscombe. The Battalion moved to Romsey in May 1915 and then to Aldershot following in June. They proceeded to France on the 27th of September 1915, landing at Boulogne. The 25th Division concentrated around Nieppe and saw action in 1916 on Vimy Ridge. The Division then moved to The Somme in late June 1916 and saw action in the Battle of Albert with 75th Brigade suffering heavily on the 3rd of July near Martinsart and again in mid July in the Ovillers area. Between the 23rd of July and 10th of August 1916, the 25th Division held a sector of the line north of the River Ancre and in late September and October they were in action during the Battle of the Ancre Heights. At the end of October the Division moved to Flanders and took over the Ploegsteert sector where they would spend the first quarter of 1917. The Battalion was in action in the Battle of Messines and the Third Battle of Ypres. In 1918 they were in action at the The Battle of St Quentin and The First Battle of Bapaume, before returning to Flanders. The 25th Division was in the front line at Ploegsteert when the enemy launched the Spring Offensive on the 12th of April and the 75th Brigade suffered heavily around the area of Hill 63 before withdrawing to Kemmel and then to Ballieul taking part in heavy fighting throughout the Battles of the Lys. In early May 1918 the 25th Division were sent to the Champagne for a period of rest, but the enemy launched an attack at 1am on the 27th of May and the Division was once again in action. The 8th Borders were sent to hold the Aisne bridges at Pontavert and Concevreux but by mid-day the Germans had broken through and crossed the Aisne. The 25th Division was all but destroyed. The remnants of the units of the 25th Division were broken up to reinforce other Division and on the 22nd of June 1918 the 8th Borders transferred to the 50th (Northumbrian) Division, returning to action in October 1918 during the Battles of the Hindenburg Line and the Final Advance in Picardy. 26th Sep 1915 Move 27th Sep 1915 On the Move 28th Sep 1915 On the Move   29th Sep 1915 Instruction 30th Sep 1915 Instruction 1st Oct 1915 Instruction 2nd Oct 1915 Instruction 3rd Oct 1915 Reliefs   4th Oct 1915 In the Trenches 5th Oct 1915 Snipers 6th Oct 1915 Machine Guns 7th Oct 1915 Trench Work 8th Oct 1915 Trench Work 9th Oct 1915 Billets   10th Oct 1915 Billets 11th Oct 1915 Working Parties and Training 12th Oct 1915 Working Parties and Training 13th Oct 1915 Bombardment 14th Oct 1915 Working Parties 15th Oct 1915 Reliefs   16th Oct 1915 Shells   17th Oct 1915 Machine Gun 18th Oct 1915 Shelling   19th Oct 1915 Shelling 20th Oct 1915 Shelling 21st Oct 1915 Reliefs 21st Oct 1915 Reliefs   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1917 Training 1st Sep 1917 On the March 2nd Sep 1917 On the March 7th Sep 1917 Trench Work 8th Sep 1917 Shelling 9th Sep 1917 Enemy Attack 9th September 1917 Hostile planes over dropping several bombs 10th Sep 1917 Shelling 11th Sep 1917 Cleaning up 12th Sep 1917 Move 1st Apr 1918 On the Move   2nd Apr 1918 Into the Line   3rd Apr 1918 Baths 4th Apr 1918 Inspections 5th Apr 1918 Reliefs   5th Apr 1918 Reliefs   5th Apr 1918 Reliefs   6th Apr 1918 Patrols   7th Apr 1918 Machine Guns   8th Apr 1918 Reliefs   9th Apr 1918 Under Shellfire   10th Apr 1918 Company overrun  In Ploegseert Wood, 2nd Lt Preston's company of the 8th Battalion Border Regiment are overrun by the enemy and taken as prisoners of war. 2nd Lt Preston had been killed by sniper fire in the morning whilst going amongst his men instructing them what to do in case of an attack. 10th Apr 1918 In Action   10th of April 1918 Under Attack   11th of April 1918 Quiet...and then...   12th of April 1918 Enemy Advances   13th of April 1918 Under Heavy Attack   14th of April 1918 A Counter-Attack   15th of April 1918 A Quiet Day   17th of April 1918 HQs Move   18th of April 1918 Relief for Some   19th of April 1918 A Quiet Day   27th Apr 1918 Reliefs 29th of April 1918 Under Fire Again   5th of July 1918  If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 8th Battalion, Border Regiment? There are:409 items tagged 8th Battalion, Border Regiment available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with 8th Battalion, Border Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. Bell MM James. Pte. Britton Frederick William. Pte. (d.21st March 1918) Britton Frederick William. Pte. (d.21st March 1918) Brown George John. Sgt. (d.7th July 1916) Catterall MM. Samuel James. Sgt. (d.8th Aug 1917) Catterall MM CdeG Samuel James. Sgt. (d.8th Aug 1917) Chambers Walter M. P.. Pte. (d.31st Oct 1916) Cockell Raynard. Sgt. (d.7th Jun 1917) Earl Thomas. Pte. (d.14th Jul 1916) Ellwood John Townson. Cpl. (d.27th May 1918) Gaines Ernest. Pte. (d.5th Jul 1916) Gilchrist Edward Thomas. Pte. Gilchrist Edward Thomas. Pte. Glen John William Currie. L/Cpl. Graham Irving. Pte. (d.7th Aug 1917) Hamblin Walter. Pte. (d.9th July 1916) Hayne Richard. Pte. Hold Edmund. Cpl. (d.15th Jul 1916) Jackson James. Pte. (d.5th July 1916) Jordan Edward James. Pte. (d.8th Nov 1918) Jordan Edward James. Pte. (d.8th Nov 1918) Lomas William. Pte. (d.22nd Mar 1918) Newton Herbert. Pte. (d.13th July 1917) Preston William Carter. 2nd Lt. (d.10th Apr 1918) Preston William Carter. 2nd Lt. (d.10th Apr 1918) Rae Allan. Pte. (d.5th July 1916) Rhodes John Kenneth. 2nd Lt. (d.16th Jul 1916) Ridley Harold. Pte. (d.15th Jul 1916) Sutcliffe George Allan. 2nd Lt. Tweddle John. L/Cpl. (d.28th April 1916) Whitby John Arthur. Pte. (d.11th Apr 1918) All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of 8th Battalion, Border Regiment from other sources. 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He was sent to Romney Marsh Camp for training purposes in March to May 1916. He embarked to Boulonge. He was at Thiepval, the Somme on the 5th of July. He and his company took the German front lines and held them for 90 minutes. Till lack of reinforcement and ammmo forced a retreat. Sadly Ernest was killed/lost. He left a wife Annie and boy Alexander. He has no grave. But is on the Thiepval Memorial. Robert Mtchell Add to this record.   Sgt. Raynard Cockell 8th Btn. Border Regiment (d.7th Jun 1917) My third-great-uncle Raynard Cockell was a police officer in Ashford before joining the army. Initially, he was with the 3rd East Kent Regiment before moving onto the 8th Battalion, Border Regiment. Whilst in an enemy trench during the 3rd Battle of Messines, he and 4 others where hit by shell fire and all died instantly. Their bodies were buried on the Messines Ridge in Belgium, any further attempt to recover the body properly failing due to being unable to locate his body because of continuing enemy shellfire. His name appears on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Ypres, Belgium. Ben Woolmer Add to this record.   2nd Lt. George Allan Sutcliffe 8th (Lonsdale) Btn. Border Regiment George Sutcliffe joined the Border Regiment in late 1917/early 1918 (after 2 years fighting in East Africa). He joined the 8th Btn, B Coy on 4th of May 1918, and spent much of May training and getting ready to go into the line, NE of Reims. He wrote home on 26th of May saying 'ready to move out'. On 27th of May 1918, German troops overran the trenches to the north and quickly moved south, smothering his battalion. George was reported missing on 29th of May (all this from the Border Regimental Diary) and he was reported (in the Red Cross files) as being captured on 27th of May 1918, then sent via Karlsruhe to Schweidnitz internment camp in Silesia (now Swidniza in Poland). He was repatriated in 1919. Sheila Currie Add to this record.   Pte. Edward Thomas "Ned" Gilchrist 8th Btn. Border Regiment Ned Gilchrist served with the 8th and 11th Battalion, Border Regiment. Yvonne McNamara Add to this record.   Pte. Edward Thomas Gilchrist 8th Btn. Border Regiment My grandfather, Edward Gilchrist, served with the 8th Battalion, Border Regiment in WW1. He was captured at Armentieres 10th of April 1918 and was a POW at Stendal Camp. Yvonne McNamara Add to this record.   Pte. Harold Ridley 8th Btn. Border Regiment (d.15th Jul 1916) Harold Ridley served with the 8th Battalion, Border Regiment He died on 15th of July 1916, aged 22. His parents Joseph Ridley and Margaret Alice Ridley lived at 3 Cross View, Highgate, Kendal. He had joined up at Kendal, Westmorland on 6th of September 1914, one of the Kendal Pals. His declared was age 21yrs and 1 month and he enlisted for duration of the war. He was unmarried with no children His height was 5' 9 and 3/4" weight 120lbs (8st 2lb) Chest 34 and 1/2", chest expansion 2" He was declared fit for army service on the 16th of September 1914, He had a fresh complexion, dark blue eyes, dark brown hair. Harold went to France on the 26th of September 1915 and was granted 8 days leave from 25th of May 1916. He was listed as missing on the 13th of July 1916 and declared Killed in Action on the 15th. Harold is Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial and he is remembered on The Somervells Employees War Memorial at Kendal. Harold was born in 1893 in, Kendal and Christened 1st Oct 1893. Surviving siblings: born 1891 John W C Ridley (army service in India), born 1897 Jane Ridley, born 1900 Joseph Ridley and born 1903 Elizabeth Ridley. On the 1911 England Census the family lived at 3 Cross View Yard, Highgate, Kendal, Westmorland house of 5 rooms. Joseph Ridley, Head of House, Boot Finisher, age 44 (born in Kendal, son of Thomas Ridley and Elizabeth Ridley, nee Carradus). Margaret Alice Ridley (nee Dixon, married 1890), wife, 7 children (all born in Kendal, 4 still alive), age 42 (born in Kendal). John William Ridley, Iron Moulder at Foundry, single, age 20. Harold Ridley, Boot Finisher, single, age 17. Jane Ridley, Boot Fitter, age 14 and Elizabeth Ridley, scholar, age 7. William Sharp Add to this record.   Pte. Walter Hamblin 8th Battalion Border Regiment (d.9th July 1916) Walter Hamblin was born in Barnett (sic) Norfolk and lived at Castle Acre. He enlisted in Norwich with the Norfolk Regiment and transferred to the 8th Battalion Border Regiment. He died on 9th of July 1916 and is buried in Le Cateau Military Cemetery in France. Sally Fletcher Add to this record.   Pte. Frederick William Britton 8th Battalion Border Regiment (d.21st March 1918) Frederick Britton joined the 3rd Battalion the Norfolk Regiment in 1898 when he was 18 and served in South Africa during the Boer War leaving the Army in 1904 to marry and start a family. He re-enlisted in the same regiment on 7th of July 1915. On 9th of November 1915 Frederick was transferred to the 10th Battalion, Border Regiment and then further transferred to the 8th Battalion in France on 30th of December 1915. He remained in France with the Battalion until his death on 21st of March 1918. Dennis Clive Hall Add to this record.   Pte. Walter M. P. Chambers 8th Battalion Border Regiment (d.31st Oct 1916) Walter Chambers died of his injuries, I believe during the Battle of the Ancre Heights. M P Harney Add to this record.   Pte. Frederick William Britton 8th Battalion Border Regiment (d.21st March 1918) Frederick Britton had previously served in the Boer War with the 3rd Norfolk Regiment. He enlisted with the same regiment on 17th of July 1915 but was transferred to the 10th Battalion of the Border Regiment on 9th November 1915 and then transferred to 8 Battalion of the Border Regiment on 30th of December 1915 and was promptly posted to France. The battalion took part in many actions on the Western Front and he was killed in action on 21 March 1918 leaving a widow and six children. He is commemorated at the Arras Memorial Records have his surname variously spelled Britton/Britain/Brittain Clive Hall Add to this record.   Pte. Richard Hayne 8th Battalion Border Regiment Richard Hayne was wounded and taken prisoner on Monday 27th of May 1918. Add to this record.   L/Cpl. John William Currie Glen 8th Btn. Border Regiment My Grandfather John Glen, first enlisted with the Royal Flying Corps, later transferred to the Royal West Kent Regiment and finally transferred to the 8th Battalion, Border Regiment on 22 April 1918. He was captured on the 27th May 1918 at Chemens de Dames (Third battle of the River Aisne). He was later held at Crossen POW camp near Brandenburg until his release at the end of the War. I have only recently discovered this. Derek Glen Add to this record.   Sgt. Samuel James Catterall MM CdeG 8th Btn. Border Regiment (d.8th Aug 1917) Samuel was a Lancashire coal miner. He served with the 8th Btn Border Regiment and 75th Trench Mortar Battery. He was survived by his wife Betsy (nee Atherton) and children Wilfred, Mathew, Thomas and Edna. On behalf of the public of Ashton-in-Makerfield Lady Mary Gerrard presented an inscribed gold pocket watch to Betsy. This watch remained in the family until About 1975 when in the temporary custody of Mathew's wife Hilda it and the Belgium medal was either lost or stolen and has never been recovered James Edward Catterall Add to this record.   Sgt. Samuel James Catterall MM. 8th Btn. Border Regiment (d.8th Aug 1917) Samuel Catterall is buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery in Belgium. He was awarded the Military Medal by Major General Bainbridge of the 25th Anzac division following the Battle for Messines Ridge June 7th 1917 where he was apparently employed as No 1 in a 3" Stokes Mortar Detachment. He was later awarded a Belgian Croix de Guerre. His unit moved near to Ypres in early August 1917. He was killed by an exploding shell whilst riding a bicycle to transport some supplies on August 8th 1917. He was survived by his wife Betsy (nee Atherton)and sons Wilfred ,Matthew and Thomas. His name is inscribed on the Roll of Honour in St Thomas Church Ashton-in Makerfield. Sometime later Lady Mary Gerrard presented Betsy with an inscribed memorial pocket watch as a token of thanks from the people of Ashton-in- Makerfield. This watch and the Crois de Guerre medal were stolen about 1974 whilst they were in the keeping of Hilda Catterall (Wife of Matthew decd). These items have never been recovered and rightfully belong to Hugh James Catterall the Great grandson of Wilfred. James Edward Catterall Add to this record.   Pte. Allan Rae 8th Btn. Border Regiment (d.5th July 1916) Allan Rae was my great uncle. He had no known grave, but is commemorated at Thiepval. My father, his nephew, always intended to visit the memorial but never managed to do so. My brother & I hope to visit in 2016 for the centenary, but in the meantime would be grateful for any information on how to track down his service record (we have drawn a blank at the obvious sites) to determine where he was killed. Mike Turner Add to this record.   Pte. Edward James Jordan 8th Btn. Border Regiment (d.8th Nov 1918) Edward James Jordan died as a Prisoner of War on 8th of November 1918, aged 27. Buried in the Berlin South Western Cemetery in Germany, he was the son of Edward and Chartlotte Jordan, husband of Annie Jordan, of 54 Milton St. Burnley. s flynn Add to this record.   Pte. Thomas Earl 8th Btn. Border Regiment (d.14th Jul 1916) Thomas Earl was the boyfriend of my grandmother on my mother's side. They were both sweethearts living in Carlisle, and they were going to marry after he came back from the war (so the story goes). Of course he never did, and was killed in action on 14th July 1916. I wonder if I would be here today if those events did not happen. What a different world the place would be when you multiply all the ifs and buts of WW1. What a different place this country would be. Thomas Earl is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. John Rutherford Add to this record.   Cpl. Edmund Hold 8th Btn. Border Regiment (d.15th Jul 1916) Edmund Hold served with the 8th Battalion, Border Regiment during WW1 and died on the 15th June 1916. He is buried in Pozieres British Cemetery, Ovillers la Boisselle. Add to this record.   Pte. Edward James Jordan 8th Btn. Border Regiment (d.8th Nov 1918) Edward James Jordan served with the 8th Battalion, Border Regiment during WW1 and died as a Prisoner of War on the 8th November 1918, aged 27. He is buried in the Berlin South-Western Cemetery in Germany. He was the son of Edward and Chartlotte Jordan. Husband of Annie Jordan, of 54, Milton St. Burnley. S Flynn Add to this record.   Pte. John Arthur Whitby 8th Btn. Border Regiment (d.11th Apr 1918) John Whitby is my Uncle, of whom little is known apart from his name being on the Ploegsteert Memorial in Belgium and the War Memorial in Rainham, Essex. He was just 21 when he died, and as my Father would only have been 10 years old at that time, no other information has been passed down the Family. On the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Website he is listed as 242036 Private John Arthur Whitby served with the 8th Battalion Border regiment during WW1. He died on the 11th April 1918 and is remembered on Panel 6, Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. He was the son of George and Elizabeth MA Whitby of the Ferry, Rainham, Essex. A J Whitby Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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