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14th (Light) Division    The 14th (Light) Division was formed as a result of Army Order No. 324, issued on 21 August 1914, which authorised the formation of the six new Divisions of K1. It was formed of volunteers. At first it was numbered the 8th (Light) Division, but as more regular army units became available to create a Division, they were given precedence and this was renumbered as the 14th (Light) Division. Initially without equipment or arms of any kind, the recruits were judged to be ready by May 1915, although its move to the fighting front was delayed by lack of rifle and artillery ammunition. The 14th (Light) Division served on the Western Front throughout the war. It took part in the following engagements: 1915 The Action of Hooge, in which the Division had the misfortune to be the first to be attacked by flamethrower. The Second Attack on Bellewaarde 1916 The Battle of Delville Wood - Somme The Battle of Flers-Courcelette - Somme 1917 The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line The First Battle of the Scarpe - Arras The Third Battle of the Scarpe - Arras The Battle of Langemark - Third Battles of Ypres The First Battle of Passchendaele - Third Battles of Ypres The Second Battle of Passchendaele - Third Battles of Ypres 1918 The Battle of St Quentin - Somme The Battle of the Avre - Somme The Battle of Ypres and the final advance in Flanders On the Somme in 1918 the Division suffered very severe casualties, losing almost 6,000 troops. XLVI and XLVII Brigades RFA lost all their guns. The Division was withdrawn from the line and placed on the construction of a new defensive line in the rear. On 26th of April, the infantry battalions were reduced to a training cadre. Various units were temporarily attached before the Division was moved to England for re-establishment on 17th of June 1918. The refreshed Division, although still short on numbers, moved back to France and joined Second Army in early July 1918. On 24 March 1919 the Division ceased to exist, having suffered more than 37,100 casualties during the war. The units forming the divisional order of battle of the 14th (Light) Division 41st Brigade 7th Btn, King's Royal Rifle Corps left February 1918 8th Btn, King's Royal Rifle Corps left as a cadre in June 1918 7th Btn, Rifle Brigade left June 1918 8th Btn, Rifle Brigade left as a cadre in June 1918 41st Machine Gun Company joined 15 February 1916, left to move into 14th MG Battalion 1 March 1918 41st Trench Mortar Battery joined 2 May 1916 18th Btn, York & Lancaster Regiment joined in England June 1918 29th Btn, Durham Light Infantry joined in England June 1918 33rd Btn, London Regiment joined in England June 1918 42nd Brigade 5th Btn, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry left as a cadre in June 1918 5th Btn, King's Shropshire Light Infantry disbanded February 1918 9th Btn, King's Royal Rifle Corps left as a cadre in June 1918 9th Btn, Rifle Brigade left as a cadre in June 1918 42nd Machine Gun Company joined 24 February 1916, left to move into 14th MG Battalion 1 March 1918 42nd Trench Mortar Battery joined 15 April 1916 6th Btn, Wiltshire Regt joined as a cadre June 1918 and rebuilt 16th Btn, Manchester Regt joined as a cadre June 1918 and rebuilt 14th Btn, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders joined as a cadre June 1918 and rebuilt 43rd Brigade 6th Btn, Somerset Light Infantry left June 1918 6th Btn, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry disbanded February 1918 6th Btn, Yorkshire Light Infantry disbanded February 1918 10th Btn, Durham Light Infantry disbanded February 1918 43rd Machine Gun Company formed at Houtkerque 16 February 1916, left to move into 16th MG Battalion 1 March 1918 43rd Trench Mortar Battery joined 24 April 1916 9th Btn, Cameronians joined February 1918, left April 1918 7th Btn, King's Royal Rifle Corps joined February 1918, left as a cadre June 1918 12th Btn, Suffolk Regiment joined as a cadre June 1918 and rebuilt 6th Btn, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers briefly attached June 1918 20th Btn, Middlesex Regiment joined as a cadre June 1918 and rebuilt 10/11th Btn, Highland Light Infantry joined as a cadre June 1918 and rebuilt Divisional Troops 11th Btn, King's (Liverpool Regiment) became Divisional Pioneer Battalion joined January 1915, left June 1918 8th Btn, Devonshire Regt left May 1915 15th Btn, the Loyal North Lancashire Regt joined in England June 1918 6th Btn, the Leinster Regt briefly attached July 1918 8th Motor Machine Gun Battery joined early 1915, left 5 November 1916 249th Machine Gun Company joined 21 July 1917, left 1 October 1917 224th Machine Gun Company joined 17 November 1917, left to move into 14th MG Battalion 1 March 1918 14th Battalion Machine Gun Corps formed 1 March 1918 Divisional Mounted Troops D Sqn, Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry left 11 May 1916 14th Divisional Cyclist Company, Army Cyclist Corps formed 11 January 1915, left 11 May 1916 Divisional Artillery XLVI Brigade, RFA XLVII Brigade, RFA XLVIII Brigade, RFA left 7 January 1917 XLIX (Howitzer) Brigade, RFA broken up 6 October 1916 14th Divisional Ammunition Column RFA 14th Heavy Battery, RGA formed as 8th (New) Heavy Battery RGA - the most senior Heavy Battery of the New Armies - on 12 October 1914. Designation changed soon after, and joined Division 9 February 1915. Left on 8 June 1915 and joined XVI Heavy Artillery Brigade. V.14 Heavy Trench Mortar Battery RFA joined 28 July 1916, left 19 January 1918 to join Fifth Army Mortar School X.14, Y.14 and Z.14 Medium Mortar Batteries RFA formed 11 March 1916; on 3 February 1918, Z broken up and batteries reorganised to have 6 x 6-inch weapons each Royal Engineers 61st Field Company 62nd Field Company 89th Field Company joined January 1915 14th Divisional Signals Company Royal Army Medical Corps 42nd Field Ambulance 43rd Field Ambulance 44th Field Ambulance 25th Sanitary Section left 1 April 1917 Other Divisional Troops 14th Divisional Train ASC 100, 101, 102 and 103 Companies 26th Mobile Veterinary Section AVC 215th Divisional Employment Company, Labour Corps joined by 9 June 1917 14th Divisional Motor Ambulance Workshop absorbed into Divisional Train 9 April 1916 14th Jan 1915 Reorganisation 18th Feb 1915 Training 24th May 1915 Reorganisation 11th May 1915 Preparations 15th May 1915 Report 19th May 1915 Transport 20th May 1915 Advance Party 20th May 1915 On the 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April 1917 Reliefs   12th of April 1917 Very Cold West Day 23rd of April 1917    24th of April 1917 Orders 24th of April 1917  25th of April 1917  27th of April 1917  1st of May 1917  1st May 1917 Orders Received   1st May 1917 Operation Order No. 2.   3rd May 1917 Assault Made 21st of May 1917  9th July 1917 Orders 10th July 1917 Administrative Orders for move 10th July 1917 Instructions 10th July 1917 Operation Order No.120. 10th July 1917 Administrative Orders for the Move.   21st August 1917 Operational Order   25th Aug 1917 Attack 29th August 1917 March Table    15th September 1917 On the March 10th of October 1917   "Intense Barrage" Endured   11th of October 1917 Snipers Active   19th of October 1917 Relief Ordered   16th Nov 1917 On the Move 17th Nov 1917 Into Billets 18th Nov 1917 In Billets 28th Nov 1917 Tactical Scheme 29th Nov 1917 Baths and Sport 1st Dec 1917 Preparations 2nd Dec 1917 On the Move 3rd Dec 1917 On the Move   4th Dec 1917 In Reserve   10th Dec 1917 Recce   11th Dec 1917 Ammunition   12th Dec 1917 Reliefs   13th Dec 1917 Less Shelling   13th of December 1917 Move   14th Dec 1917 Shelling   15th Dec 1917 Reliefs   16th Dec 1917 Cleaning up   17th Dec 1917 Cleaning up   18th Dec 1917 Mules   20th Dec 1917 Orders   24th Dec 1917 Reliefs Complete 24th Dec 1917 Reorganisation 26th of December 1917  21st Jan 1918 Course 5th Feb 1918 Course Ends 13th Feb 1918 Personnel 21st Feb 1918 Reorganisation 25th Feb 1918 Reliefs   10th Mar 1918 Trench Raid   21st of March 1918 "Man Battle Stations"   21st Mar 1918 Enemy Attacks   22nd of March 1918 Three Brigades Withdrawn   22nd Mar 1918 Enemy Attacks   23rd of March 1918 A Serious Gap   23rd Mar 1918 Enemy Advance   31st of March 1918 Account of Operations   3rd Apr 1918 Artillery In Action 4th Jul 1918  On the Move 5th Jul 1918  On the March 11th Jul 1918  On the March 12th Jul 1918  On the March 13th Jul 1918  On the March 14th Jul 1918  Training 17th Jul 1918  Inspection 31st Jul 1918  Training 1st Aug 1918  Training 1st Aug 1918  Training 5th Aug 1918  Horse Show 16th Aug 1918  Training 17th Aug 1918  Sports 18th Aug 1918  Training 23rd Aug 1918  On the Move   24th Aug 1918  Training   29th Aug 1918  On the Move   30th Aug 1918  In Reserve   31st Aug 1918  In Reserve   If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 14th (Light) Division? There are:229 items tagged 14th (Light) Division 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 14th (Light) Division during the Great War 1914-1918. Brown Frederick William. Rfmn. 12th Btn. Collins Alfred. Pte. 5th Battalion (d.25th September 1915) Farrell James. Sgt. 10th Btn. (d.29th August 1916) Langrishe John duPlessis. Major. 12th Field Ambulance Lawrence Joseph Walter. Pte. 101st Coy. Parrish Henry. Sgt. C Coy. 9th Btn. (d.15th Sep 1916) Powell Leonard Thomas. Rfmn. 7th Battalion (d.26th Oct 1915) Roach Cyrus Owen. FarrierQMS. (d.23rd Aug 1915) Roberts Harry. L/Cpl. 41st Coy. Underwood Walter. Pte. 12th Btn. 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If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. We are now on Facebook. Like this page to receive our updates, add a comment or ask a question. If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 1206490 Sgt. Henry Parrish MM. C Coy. 9th Btn. Rifle Brigade (d.15th Sep 1916) Henry Parrish is my great grand-father. He served in the Rifle Brigade, 9th Battalion, 'C' Company and died on the 15th September 1916 at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette leaving a wife and three children. He earned the Military Medal for his bravery during this battle. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial. Corinne Stevens Add to this record. 257792 Major. John duPlessis Langrishe DSO MID. 12th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Capt. Jack Langrishe was a Regular Army doctor, having joined the British Army in 1907 after graduating from Trinity College, Dublin. He served in India from Sept. 1908 to Aug. 1913 and in the British Army hospital in Queenstown, Ireland, from Sept. 1913 to Sept. 1914. He went to France in Sept. 1914 as regimental medical officer to 38th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. On 19th January 1915 he was appointed to 16th Field Ambulance, 16th Infantry Brigade, then in Flanders. He then joined the staff of the A.D.M.S. 14th Division on 10th Nov. 1915 in Flanders, later on the Arras and Somme fronts. On 6th of November 1916 he took command of 12th Field Ambulance with the acting rank of Lt. Colonel, retaining this post and rank until 1st March 1919. The Field Ambulance supported the actions in a number of sectors, finally being involved in the advance from Arras to Cambrai in October 1918. The Field Ambulance remained in being until March 1919. Jack was promoted to Major (substantive) on 28th January 1919, retaining his acting rank of Lt. Col. until relinquishing command of the Field Ambulance. He was Mentioned in Despatches by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig on 7th November 1917 (L.G. 24.12.1917) and appointed to the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.) the same month (L.G. 1.1.1918); he was invested by H.M. King George V at Buckingham Palace on 23rd November 1918. He continued to serve until retirement on 2nd May 1928. Hugh R. Langrishe Add to this record. 253487 Pte. Joseph Walter Lawrence 101st Coy. Army Service Corps All we know is Joseph Lawrence served all the way through the war within the 14th Division which was set up on the 28th of August 1914 as part of Kitchener's Armies and records show he signed up on that day. The T on his service number indicates he was working with horse transport as part of the 101st company of the ASC serving the 14th Division. He made it through the war but died in 1936. Christine Richardson Add to this record. 251244 Pte. Alfred Collins 5th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (d.25th September 1915) Alfred Collins was born in Little Compton in the county of Oxfordshire in January 1896. He was the son of George Hubert and Lily Collins. He enlisted into the British Army in Oxford in October 1914. He gave his age as 19 at the time of his enlistment even though he was in fact only 18 at the time. His occupation at the time of enlistment was listed as a plough boy. He was single at the time of enlistment. He entered the British army as Private 15281 into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He was posted to the 5th (Service) Battalion, A Company. He embarked to France with the battalion and landed at Boulogne on 21st of May 1915. The Battalion formed part of the 42nd brigade in the 14th (Light) Division. The Battalion took part in an attack on enemy positions at Bellwaarde Farm near Ypres in Belgium on 25th of September 1915. It sustained heavy losses during the attack. Private 15281 Alfred Collins was reported missing presumed killed in action during that attack on Bellewaarde Farm on 25th of September 1915. He has no known grave and so is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres in Belgium. He was posthumously awarded the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Allied Victory Medal. The medals would have been forwarded to his next of kin after the war. Darren Smith Add to this record. 233792 L/Cpl. Harry Roberts MID 41st Coy. Machine Gun Corps Harry Roberts was my grandfather. He joined up in August 1914, when he had just turned 18 and was transferred to the Machine Gun Corps from the 7th Rifle Brigade on 18th February 1916 where he remained until his discharge in April 1919. He was Mentioned in Dispatches on 24th December 1917 after Passchendaele. Immensely proud of him, although he passed away before my brother or I were born. His memory will live on. Helen Roberts Add to this record. 221094 FarrierQMS. Cyrus Owen Roach Royal Field Artillery (d.23rd Aug 1915) Cyrus Roach served during Anglo Boer War and was apparently serving in India for 10yrs. He received the Royal Humane Society Medal for bravery for saving the life of a pallbearer on the Brahmaputra River. However this has been told through family members but cannot find evidence of this. His original Headstone at Bodmin has been replaced with CWWGC which apparently was put on after the death of Cyrus Owens' spouse Naomi Edith Ethel Maud Roach and the Original headstone was not put back, but it has been told to me by my father that there were a lot of decorations on the original headstone. Unfortunately a lot of photos and information have been burnt and I only have snippets told to me by surviving relatives. Cyrus Owen apparently was a Farrier Quarter Master Sergeant who also was a Veterinary Surgeon or what we now today would call Animal Husbandry. He served with the 17th Battery Royal Field Artillery during WW1 and died at Ayot Exeter on the 23rd August 1915. From the photo he was with C Battery (Farriers), 46th Brigade, RFA Christopher Roach Add to this record. 218786 Rfmn. Frederick William Brown 12th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps My Grandfather, Rifleman Frederick William Brown served with The King's Royal Rifle Corps from 1915 to 1917. He was at the Somme where he was injured in both legs by faulty detonators in Mills 5 hand grenades. The explosions wounded a number of soldiers. He was eventually sent back to the front and was at the Third Battle of Ypres where he was badly wounded on the 16th August 1917. He lay in a trench until someone thought they saw movement. He was taken to the Australian Hospital at Rouen. He had received GSW left shoulder and lung. He was eventually shipped home on 14th October 1917 and it is amazing that he survived until 1949 when I was five years of age. I am the only cousin to have known him. From the time he arrived home to the day he died he was in pain, as were so many other brave servicemen and women. His death certificate attests to the fact that he died from his war wounds. We all remember the horrific details of the 16th August 1917 when Grandad was so badly wounded. The conditions were appalling and how those soldiers managed eventually to over-run the enemy is a miracle. Their sacrifice for us will always be remembered with gratitude. RIP Poppy. Jill Lindenaar Add to this record. 218426 Rfmn. Leonard Thomas Powell 7th Battalion Rifle Brigade (d.26th Oct 1915) Leonard Thomas Powell was my Great Uncle who died of wounds in Cambridge on 26th October 1915. In the photo attached he is standing. Unfortunately, I know nothing of where or when the photo was taken and have no idea of the identity of the other soldier. Leonard served with the 7th Battalion the Rifle Brigade during WW1 and died of wounds in Cambridge on 26th October 1915, aged 18. His is buried in Cambridge City Cemetery. He was the son of Tom Milner Powell and Margaret Fanny Powell, of 39, The Avenue, New Southgate, London. Sue Add to this record. 216740 Pte. Walter Underwood 12th Btn. Manchester Regiment (d.5th Nov 1918) My Grandfather, Walter Underwood, served with the 12th Manchester Regiment. He died just 6 days before the end of the war. He left behind a wife and 7 children, my father being the eldest at just 10 years of age. At this time they lived in the village of Welford, Northamptonshire. Add to this record. 213977 Sgt. James Farrell 10th Btn. Durham Light Infantry (d.29th August 1916) James Farrell, Sergeant 10279, enlisted at Jarrow and served in the 10th Battalion Durham Light Infantry. He died age 26 on the 29th August 1916. He is remembered on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church, Jarrow and he is buried at La Neuville British Cemetery, Corbie.II.B.9. James was born in Jarrow 1890, son of Catherine Farrell (nee Welsh) and the late Edward Farrell. The 1911 Census lists him as: James Farrell, Private age 21, single born Jarrow (St. Peter's) living at 4th Durham Light Infantry Barracks, (St. Andrews) Barrack Road, Newcastle. His family are living at 9 George Street, Jarrow (St. Peter's) Catherine Farrell widow age 44 born Jarrow (crossed out): married 27 years, children born 7, children living 6, children died 1)with Matthew M. Farrell, son age 23, Apprentice Riveter in Shipbuilding born Jarrow. Edward Farrell son age 14 Labourer in Paper Mill born Jarrow and Andrew Farrell son age 12 at School born Jarrow. VM Add to this record.

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