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2/2nd Battalion, London Regiment
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These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War.
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Those known to have served with2/2nd Battalion, London Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Baber George Robert. Pte. (d.22nd Sep 1918)
- Baber George Robert. Pte. (d.22nd Sep 1918)
- Baker H.. Sig.
- Franks Jacob. Rfmn. (d.1st Sep 1918)
- Goodall Stanley Percival. Pte. (d.26th Oct 1917)
- Humphries William Charles. Pte. (d.25th Sept 1917)
- Wadhams Joseph. Pte. (d.20th December 1917)
- Wadhams Joseph. Pte. (d.20th Dec 1917)
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Pte. George Robert Baber 2nd Btn. Royal Fusiliers (d.22nd Sep 1918) George Baber enlisted with the 2nd London Regiment and was posted to 2nd Btn. Royal Fusiliers.
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Pte. Joseph Wadhams 2/2nd Btn. London Regiment (d.20th Dec 1917) Joe Wadhams served with the 2/2nd London Regiment.
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Pte. Joseph Wadhams 2/2nd Battalion London Regiment (d.20th December 1917) Joseph Wadhams served with the 2nd Battalion, London Regiment (T.F.), son of William Wadhams by his wife, Louisa Jane, daughter of Thomas Prowd of Birmingham. He was born in Key Hill, Birmingham on 23rd of Sept. 1883 and educated there. He was a Cycle Frame Filer and joined the 11th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment on 26th of June, 1916 and served with the Expeditionary Force in France from 20th of July 1917 and transferred to the London Regiment in Augusat and was killed in action at Cambrai on 20th of December 1917. He married at St. Paul's Church, Lozells, Warwickshire on 31st of March, 1907 to Annie Elizabeth of 2/103, Bridge Street West, Birmingham, daughter of William Newey and had five children, Joseph, b. 15 Feb. 1908, Edward b. 7 July 1910, John b. 5 Jan. 1912, Alfred b. 18 Jan. 1915 and Louie b. 14 May, 1913.
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Rfmn. Jacob Franks 2/2nd Btn. London Regiment (d.1st Sep 1918) Jacob Franks was a regular soldier serving with 3rd Kings Royal Rifle Corps. His service record has been lost (one of the burnt records). However, he is shown on the 1911 census as serving with the KRRC at Shorncliffe, Kent. He was married in April 1918 but was killed in Sept 1918 whilst serving with 2/2nd London Regiment and he is commemorated on the CWGC memorial at Vis en Artois in France. It is not known why he was serving with the London Regiment, a battlefield casualty replacement perhaps. Certainly his old Regiment stayed in Salonika till the end of the war so the reason is a mystery.
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Pte. George Robert Baber 2/2nd Btn. (d.22nd Sep 1918) George Baber served with the 2nd Royal Fusiliers before being posted to 2nd/2nd Battalion, London Regiment.
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Sig. H. Baker 2/2nd Btn. London Regiment H Baker was invalided from France 6th of Oct 1917. In Carmarthen Red Cross Hospital on 27th of Nov 1917 he wrote a Poem and autograph in recently found grandmother's diary.
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Pte. Stanley Percival Goodall 1st/2nd Btn. London Regiment (d.26th Oct 1917)  Stanley Percival Goodall was the fifth child of Charles and Elizabeth Goodall, of 35 St Mary's Road, Willesden. The only one of their sons to be killed in the Great War. Four other brothers served. He was a single man, living with his parents, a travelling rep by trade. In his Will
he states that he joined the 3rd London Volunteer Battalion of Royal Fusiliers in 1903, aged 16, did Field Camps at Salisbury Plain 1905, and Savoy 1906. Enlisted at Tufton Street, Westminster on 7 September 1914 in the 2nd/2nd London R.R.F., and transferred to the 1st/2nd on January 1917.
WW1 movements.
1/2nd (City of London) Battalion (Royal Fusiliers)
August 1914 Tufton Street in Westminster.
Part of 1st London Brigade, 1st London Division.
Moved on mobilisation to guarding the Amesbury-Southampton docks railway.
4 September 1914 : sailed with Brigade from Southampton to Malta, arriving Valetta 14 September.
2 January 1915 : left Malta, arrived at Marseilles on 6 January.
21 February 1915 : joined the 17th Brigade in 6th Division.
14 October 1915 : transferred with the Brigade to 24th Division.
9 February 1916 : transferred to 169th Brigade in 56th (London) Division.
Stanley joined this unit in January 1917.
From the date of his death (26th Oct 1917), he was probably killed at the Battle of Passchendaele during the 3rd Battle of Ypres.
A battle fought in a sea of mud.
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