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C. KING, T.D., LT.-COL. G. R. TOD, LT.-COL. A. S. BATES, + Comdg. 3rd Battn. Comdg. 2nd Battn. D.S.O., + Comdg. 1st Battn.] + + + + +SHORT HISTORY + +OF THE + +LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE + + * * * * * + +_Compiled Regimentally_ + + * * * * * + + ALDERSHOT: + PRINTED BY GALE & POLDEN LTD., + WELLINGTON WORKS. + + * * * * * + +1916. + +[Blank Page] + + + + +NOTE + + +Pending the full pre-war history, which is to be written by better +hands, the very sketchy outline in Part I. is given in order to form the +connecting link between the Regiment in peace, since its formation, and +the present time. + +It does not attempt to give the smallest idea of the hard work, often +accomplished under disadvantageous circumstances, carried out by all +ranks, which made possible the work done in the war. + +That the Regiment even now exists is solely due to Lieut.-Colonel Lord +Bingham (now Brigadier-General the Earl of Lucan), whose cheery optimism +through the dark times previous to the birth of the Territorial Force +was such a great tower of strength. + + * * * * * + +Any profits which may accrue from this pamphlet will be given to the +London Rifle Brigade Prisoners' Aid Fund. + +_October, 1916._ + + + + +CONTENTS + + + PAGE + + Part I 1 + + Part II 7 + + Second Battalion 30 + + Third Battalion 31 + + Administrative Centre 33 + + Appendix A 35 + + Appendix B 39 + + Appendix C 40 + + Appendix D 45 + + Appendix E 46 + + Appendix F 47 + + + + +SHORT HISTORY + +OF THE + +LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE + + + + + +PART I. + + +[Sidenote: =Formation.=] + +The London Rifle Brigade, formerly the 1st London Volunteer Rifle Corps +(City of London Rifle Volunteer Brigade), and now, officially, the 5th +(City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment, London Rifle Brigade, +familiarly known to its members and the public generally by the +sub-title or the abbreviation "L.R.B.," was founded July 23rd, 1859, at +a meeting convened by the Lord Mayor. It has always been intimately +associated with the City of London, its companies being under the +patronage of the various Wards. + +Within a week of its formation the muster of the Regiment exceeded +1,800; two battalions were formed and headquarters were taken at No. 8, +Great Winchester Street, where they remained for 34 years, and +subsequently in Finsbury Pavement. + +In 1893 the Regiment entered its present headquarters in Bunhill Row. +These were designed by the late Lieut.-Colonel Boyes, erected entirely +from regimental funds, supplemented by contributions from members of the +Brigade, from various City Companies and other friends of the Regiment, +and constitute the finest building of its kind in London. + +Since the formation of the Territorial Force these headquarters have +been shared with the Post Office Rifles. + +[Sidenote: =Honorary Colonel.=] + +Mr. Alderman Carter was at first appointed Honorary Colonel, but in 1860 +it was suggested that a military Honorary Colonel would be more +appropriate than a civilian one, and Mr. Carter (then Lord Mayor) +approached H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, who, in response to the +unanimous wish of the Regiment, accepted the appointment, which he held +until his death in 1904. During this period he rarely missed attending +the annual inspection. + +[Sidenote: =Commanding Officers.=] + +In 1862 a resolution was passed at a meeting "that Regimental Commanding +Officers should now and always be Officers of professional experience +and ability." This tradition has been departed from on only two +occasions prior to the war, as shown in the list given on the following +page. + + NAME. FROM. TO. + + G. M. Hicks (late 41st Regiment) 30/12/59 January, 1862. + G. Warde (late 51st Regiment) February, 1862 Early, 1876. + Sir A. D. Hayter, Bt. (late Early, 1876 1881. + Grenadier Guards) + W. H. Haywood (Ex London Rifle 1881 1882. + Brigade) + Lord Edward Pelham-Clinton June, 1882 1890. + (late Rifle Brigade) + H. C. Cholmondeley (late Rifle 1890 February, 1901. + Brigade) + Edward Matthey (Ex London Rifle February, 1901 4/6/01. + Brigade) + Lord Bingham (late Rifle Brigade) June, 1901 1913. + Earl Cairns (late Rifle Brigade) 1913 1915. + Norman C. King (Ex London Rifle 1915 + Brigade) + + + _1st Battalion._ + + Earl Cairns 4/8/14 16/3/15. + A. S. Bates (Ex London Rifle 16/3/15 15/8/16. + Brigade) + R. H. Husey (Ex London Rifle 15/8/16 + Brigade) + + + _2nd Battalion._ + + G. R. Tod (late Seaforth September, 1914 + Highlanders) + + + _3rd Battalion._ + + H. C. Cholmondeley 30/11/14 1915. + Norman C. King 4/6/15 + +[Sidenote: =South African War.=] + +Colonel Cholmondeley was appointed to command the Mounted Infantry +Section of the C.I.V., to which regiment the London Rifle Brigade +contributed 2 officers (Captain C. G. R. Matthey and Lieutenant the Hon. +Schomberg K. McDonnell) and 78 other ranks. + +When the Volunteer Active Service Companies were raised, 17 members were +accepted for service with the Royal Fusiliers, and an additional 76 +joined the Imperial Yeomanry and R.A.M.C. + +The total death roll of the Regiment was seven. + +Colonel Cholmondeley, Lieutenant E. D. Johnson (Imperial Yeomanry), and +Colour-Sergeant T. G. Beeton (C.I.V. Infantry) were mentioned in +despatches. + +[Sidenote: =Honours.=] + +Colonel Cholmondeley received the C.B. for his services in South Africa, +and Lieutenant the Hon. Rupert Guinness was made a C.M.G. for his work +with the Irish Hospital. + +When the Coronation honours were announced in 1902, Colonel Edward +Matthey, V.D., received the C.B., a fitting award for his long services +to the Volunteer Force. Before joining the L.R.B. in 1873 as a private +he had already been 13 years in the Victoria Rifles. He retired in 1901, +having served in every rank. His interest in the Regiment has been, and +still is, without limit. + +_To face page 4._ + +[Illustration: THE CONVENT. + +_8th to 16th November, 1914._] + +The work he has done for its welfare, while still serving, and since +retirement, cannot be chronicled here, but, when the full history of the +Regiment is written, Colonel Matthey's name will be found writ large on +its pages. + +_To face page 5._ + +[Illustration: PLOEGSTEERT. + +_The Brewery--The Battalion's First Bath house._] + +[Sidenote: =Battle Honours.=] + +In January, 1905, the Regiment was given the right to bear upon its +"Colours and appointments" the words "South Africa, 1900-1902." + +[Sidenote: =Shooting.=] + +The London Rifle Brigade has always been distinguished as a shooting +regiment. In the very first year of its existence its co-operation was +sought in connection with the formation of the National Rifle +Association. In 1907 it had no less than a dozen International marksmen +in its ranks. + +The earliest notable individual success was that of Private J. Wyatt, +who won the Queen's Prize in 1864. + +On two more occasions has the Blue Riband of the shooting world been won +by members of the Regiment--in 1902 by Lieutenant E. D. Johnson, and in +1909 by Corporal H. G. Burr. + +Regimental teams have been very successful both at the National Rifle +Association and the London district meetings. At the latter the "Daily +Telegraph" Cup was won two years in succession (1897 and 1898). + +[Sidenote: =School of Arms.=] + +This was second to none in the Territorial Force. Its Annual +Assault-at-Arms provided as stirring a spectacle as could be witnessed +anywhere. For many years past the Brigade achieved notable successes at +the Royal Military Tournament and in the competitions of the +Metropolitan Territorial School of Arms Association. + +[Sidenote: =Athletics.=] + +The Battalion always took part in the various contests between the +Territorial Regiments with considerable success. The most notable of +late were the following:--The "Marathon" Race in the Territorial +Championship of the London District, 1913, when Captain Husey and the +London Rifle Brigade team won it in the record time of 1 hr. 33 min. 37 +sec.; the distance was 12 miles, from Ewell to Stamford Bridge. The +national contest at Newport did not produce such a good time, the London +Rifle Brigade team winning it in 1 hr. 48 min. 14 sec. + +The march to Brighton of 52½ miles for a team of sixty of all ranks, in +full marching order, was accomplished in 1914 by a London Rifle Brigade +team, under Captain Husey and Lieutenant Large, in the record time of 14 +hrs. 23 min. The war has not given any other battalion a chance to lower +the latter record, and it will assuredly take "some doing." + + + + + +PART II. + + +[Sidenote: =Mobilisation.=] + +The Battalion mobilised on the outbreak of war. It had actually gone +into camp at Eastbourne, but was brought back to London within a few +hours of its arrival. + +A second and third Battalion were soon formed. (See pp. 30, 31.) + + +FIRST BATTALION. + +Making stays of varying duration en route at Wimbledon, Hersham, and +Bisley (for three weeks), the 1st Battalion finally reached Crowborough, +where it remained under canvas until ordered abroad. + +It embarked on November 4th, 1914. The following were the officers:-- + + Lieut.-Col. W. D. Earl Cairns (Commanding). + + Lieut.-Col. (Hon. Col.) C. G. R. Matthey, V.D. + (Second-in-Command). + + Major.--N. C. King, T.D. + + Captains.--A. S. Bates, M. H. Soames, R. H. Husey, + C. H. F. Thompson, H. F. MacGeagh, J. R. + Somers-Smith, A. L. Lintott, and Hon. Major C. D. + Burnell. + + Lieutenants.--R. E. Otter, J. G. Robinson, G. H. + Morrison, E. L. Large, P. A. Slessor, H. B. Price, + A. G. Kirby, G. H. Cholmeley. + + Second-Lieutenants.--K. Forbes, G. H. G. M. + Cartwright, W. L. Willett, H. L. Johnston, C. W. + Trevelyan, H. G. Vincent, G. E. S. Fursdon, G. C. + Kitchin. + + Adjutant.--Captain A. C. Oppenheim, K.R.R.C. + + Quartermaster.--Lieutenant J. R. S. Petersen. + + Medical Officer.--Major A. D. Ducat, T.D. + +The following short account is written in constant remembrance of the +censorship regulations, and with a view to giving a faint outline of its +doings to those who were not out with the 1st Battalion in France. It +will be an aid to memory to those who were with it, and are fortunate in +being able to look back on a time when the 1st Battalion undoubtedly +reached its zenith. + +Never can any Battalion of the Regiment be better than was the 1st +London Rifle Brigade in 1914-15. That all will endeavour to be as good +is quite certain. + +[Sidenote: =1914. Nov. 5th.=] + +The Battalion arrived in France. Disembarkation was a tedious business, +and the progress through the town to the rest camp at the top of the +hill was one of the worst forms of route march the Battalion had ever +experienced. Frequent checks, but no halts, taught the true weight of +packs and kit; and a perfunctory inspection on arrival at the camp +completed the exhaustion. + +For the next three weeks the history of the Battalion was one common to +those Territorial units which were sent out as lone Battalions about +that time. It comprised a glorious uncertainty, which troops coming out +earlier and later in complete divisions cannot have experienced. For +instance, on landing it was learnt, quite by accident, but on excellent +authority, that officers no longer wore Sam Browne belts or carried +swords. A frantic rush at the last moment procured web equipment just +before the parade to entrain. Swords and belts were left at the base. + +[Sidenote: =Nov. 6th.=] + +There was much to learn about entrainment in France. An advance party +had been sent forward some two hours earlier, and the rest of the +Battalion and the transport were at the station by 4 p.m. The train was +not due to leave until 9 p.m. French trains and the French railway +system became familiar later on in all their ramifications, but at first +"Hommes 40 Chevaux (en long) 8" aroused suspicions that were only too +well justified in the next 21½ hours before the train reached its +destination. The experience was not a unique one. + +[Sidenote: =Nov. 7th.=] + +On arrival at General Headquarters it was found that the Battalion was +not even expected, and no arrangements had been made for the night. +After a wait of three hours in the train, the Battalion moved off into +some old artillery barracks, which were destined to become more familiar +later on. The quarters were, at that time, about as dismal and dirty as +can be imagined. + +[Sidenote: =Nov. 8th.=] + +The Battalion marched out some three and a half miles to a large +unfurnished and unfinished convent, which accommodated the entire +strength. + +There was no water laid on, no light, no method of heating or of drying +clothes, no furniture, and no possibility of supplementing rations. The +only bright spot was the first introduction to the rum ration. + +Training, which consisted chiefly of trench digging and artillery +formation, was carried out daily regardless of the weather. + +The Battalion was apparently considered to be up to the required +standard of efficiency and hardness, or else the authorities had not the +heart to keep it there longer, for on the 15th orders were received to +march the next day. + +[Sidenote: =Nov. 16th.=] + +The distance was 17½ miles, and the roads _pavée_ almost the whole way. +There was also some rain. In spite, however, of the absence of other +Battalions to keep them on their mettle, not a single man fell out of +the column. + +[Sidenote: =Nov. 17th.=] + +Except for bruised feet, the march next day, about 11 miles, was not +very trying. Two nights were spent at this town, where the Artists and +Honourable Artillery Company were also in billets. + +While on the march it had been possible, for the first time, to see +aeroplanes being shelled, and, while in these billets, the Battalion +learnt what it meant to see the remnants of a Brigade come out of +action. + +[Sidenote: =Nov. 19th.=] + +The Battalion moved one stage nearer to the firing line in a snow-storm. + +[Sidenote: =Nov. 20th.=] + +Brigadier-General Hunter Weston paid the Battalion a visit, and +addressed the Officers. He gave a short account of the 11th Infantry +Brigade, which he commanded, and to which the London Rifle Brigade was +attached, and outlined the scheme of training. Half-companies were to be +attached to Regular Battalions for a spell in the trenches, the men +being scattered amongst the Regulars. As soon as their worth had been +proved, half-companies were to be put in the line intact, and later +whole companies. + +At dusk on this date half the Battalion proceeded viâ Ploegsteert to the +trenches. + +[Sidenote: =Nov. 21st.=] + +For some unknown reason the Battalion had not been permitted to adopt +the "double company system" in England, but on this date the change was +made with half the Battalion absent in the trenches. + +"A" and "D" Companies became No. 1, under Major King. + +"E" and "O" Companies became No. 2, under Captain Soames. + +"G" and "P" Companies became No. 3, under Major Burnell. + +"H" and "Q" Companies became No. 4, under Captain Bates. + +_To face page 12._ + +[Illustration: PLOEGSTEERT. + +_Experimenting with a Rifle Grenade._ + +From Left to Right:--LIEUT.-COL. EARL CAIRNS, C.M.G., COL.-SGT. OVER, +STAFF-SGT. (NOW REGTL. SGT.-MAJ.) ADAMS, AND CAPT. OPPENHEIM, D.S.O.] + +For the purposes of reference, these companies will be referred to as A, +B, C, and D respectively, though, owing to the confusion that might have +arisen with the old letters, this nomenclature was not actually adopted +till after the second battle of Ypres. + +Up to December 18th the trench training of the London Rifle Brigade +continued. Platoons and whole companies, gradually working more and more +on their own, were attached to the Regulars. When not actually in the +line, the whole day was invariably taken up with "fatigues" of all +kinds. + +A support line in the wood was remade and named Bunhill Row. + +It was during this period that the Battalion gained the nicknames +"London fatigue party" or "Fatigue Fifth," and other affectionate titles +which would not look well in print. + +The Battalion also learnt what it meant to have the "dripping swung on +it." + +The 11th Infantry Brigade was composed of the following Battalions:-- + + 1st Somerset Light Infantry. + 1st East Lancashire Regiment. + 1st Hampshire Regiment. + 1st Rifle Brigade. + +[Sidenote: =Dec. 19th.=] + +The object of the attack by the 11th Infantry Brigade in front of +Ploegsteert Wood on this date was to clear its edges, including +German House, and, if possible, establish a line in front in the part +afterwards known as the "birdcage." + +_To face page 13._ + +[Illustration: PLOEGSTEERT WOOD.] + +The Somerset Light Infantry and Rifle Brigade attacked. The London Rifle +Brigade was in support. The weather could not have been worse, and the +ground was impossible. The result was that the wood was cleared, and +German House remained in No Man's Land. + +The London Rifle Brigade was not called upon to continue the attack. +This was the first experience the Battalion had of anything like heavy +artillery fire, and also of the difficulty of consolidating at night in +an unknown bit of ground. Two half-companies were engaged in assisting +in this work, while the rest of the Battalion spent a miserable night in +the marshes in the wood. + +[Sidenote: =Dec. 23rd.=] + +Each of the four companies was definitely attached, as a fifth company, +to one of the Regular Battalions--"A" to the East Lancs, "B" to the +Somerset Light Infantry, "C" to the Hants, and "D" to the Rifle Brigade. + +All four companies of the London Rifle Brigade being in the front line +on the same night, it so happened that before the end of 1914 a +Territorial Battalion held the whole of a Regular Brigade's front with +the exception of half a company on the extreme left. + +[Sidenote: =1915.=] + +[Sidenote: =Jan. 5th.=] + +The London Rifle Brigade was taken out of the trenches preparatory to +taking over a bit of line of its own on the right of the 11th Brigade. + +Owing to the incursions of the river Warnave, this trench was in a very +poor state of repair and badly flooded. + +The dispositions of the Battalion were--one company in the front trench, +one in London Farm and its environs (this supplied the night-carrying +and working parties), one company, which was used for general fatigues +for the Brigade, in reserve in Ploegsteert, and one company resting, +washing, and cleaning in billets at Armentières. Every company spent +three days in each place, and in many ways this was the most comfortable +tour of duty the Battalion ever had. + +The men made themselves thoroughly at home in the cottages of the +village, while the three days' rest in Armentières owed much of its +enjoyment to the initiative shown by the 4th Division in organising both +divisional baths and divisional Follies. + +Headquarters and various details, which included for the first time a +permanent working and wiring party, were, of course, always "in action" +in Ploegsteert. + +[Sidenote: =Mar. 11th--20th.=] + +This was a period of "standing by" and various small moves, but +eventually, after three days in the East Lancashires' trenches in front +of the Convent, the Battalion took over the centre section in the wood +on the 21st March. + +Lieut.-Colonel Earl Cairns, C.M.G., owing to ill-health, left the +Battalion on March 16th, and Major A. S. Bates took over command. + +[Sidenote: =Mar. 21st--Apl. 17th.=] + +The section was held with three companies in the wood, and the fourth in +reserve in the village. The other battalions of the 11th Brigade went +into rest on the 16th, and the London Rifle Brigade came out last on the +next day. The 11th Infantry Brigade was relieved by a brigade of the +South Midland Division. + +The following extract from a letter shows the change of conditions +between the first and second sojourn of the Battalion in the wood:-- + +"We are back again in the wood, and really almost glad, though I expect +you will hardly believe it. Our quota of work in the winter no doubt did +a good deal towards the transformation, and spring is now helping +matters. The corduroy no longer stops at the worst parts, where we used +to hold our breaths and make a dive for it. Hunter Avenue, and right +beyond it to the end of the wood, is now quite a pleasant walk. Rations +and carrying parties, though they have developed a rather peculiar gait, +can progress at a reasonable pace, and have no need to wade so long as +they keep to the boards. On either side, however, we still have a +reminder of the nightmare that is past. The possibility of getting +material up has a corresponding effect on the work in the trenches. The +trench we were in on December 9th, which we could not conceive ever +being anything but a drain, has now found its proper use. It has a new +C.T. behind, and breastworks pushed out in front into the hedge, with +little bridges across to each; so that altogether everything in the +garden is as near lovely as can be." + +The Bishop of London, the Senior Chaplain to the Regiment, during his +visit to the front, came to Ploegsteert on April 3rd, and celebrated +Holy Communion for the Battalion on Easter Sunday. He also consecrated +the Battalion's graveyard in the village. + +His regret at not being allowed to see the members of the Battalion in +the trenches was shared by all ranks. + +[Sidenote: =April 17th.=] + +Two brigades had been withdrawn to the neighbourhood of Steenwerck by +this date, and the 4th Division started its first period of rest since +the Retreat. + +[Sidenote: =April 24th.=] + +Orders were received on the 22nd for these brigades to be ready to move +at an hour's notice. The London Rifle Brigade actually entrained at +mid-day on the 24th, and spent the night in billets outside Poperinghe, +moving off at 5.30 a.m. next morning to the outskirts of Vlamertinghe. +It stopped there till 6 p.m., when it paraded with the rest of the +Brigade (less the East Lancashires) to go into the Salient. + +[Sidenote: =Second Battle of Ypres.=] + +Since the first gas attack on the evening of April 22nd, little definite +information had been available as to the situation between the left of +the 28th Division (some 1,000 yards N.N.E. of Zonnebeke) and along the +whole north side of the Salient down to the canal near Boesinghe. The +Canadians had held on with the grimmest determination in the +neighbourhood of St. Julian, while what became to be known as Geddes' +force held the line from the canal up to the Canadians. Geddes' force +consisted originally of the supports and reserves (isolated companies +and battalions) from the south and east sides of the Salient. By the +night of the 25th this force had been supplemented by the 10th Brigade, +the Northumbrian Territorial Division, the Lahore Division, and the 13th +Brigade from the 5th Division. + + +[Sidenote: =April 25th.=] + +The 11th Brigade was ordered on this night to join up the left of the +28th Division with the right of the 10th Brigade, and so relieve the +Canadians, who were still holding out in the neighbourhood of St. +Julian. + +No information was forthcoming as to the location of either of these +forces, and it would seem that, instead of one continuous line, there +were many small parties holding out in isolated groups. + +Two officers from each Battalion had been sent up in advance (Captain +Husey and Lieutenant Johnston from the London Rifle Brigade), but no +available information could be collected, except that there was +apparently a gap. + +_To face page 18._ + +[Illustration: BATTALION HEADQUARTERS. + +_11th May, 1915._] + +That night the Hants joined up with the 28th Division, and prolonged the +line nearly to the junction of the Zonnebeke-St. Julian and +Ypres-Passchendale roads. There was, however, still a gap of nearly +1,000 yards between its left and the rest of the Brigade which had +prolonged the line from the right of the 10th Brigade and part of the +Northumbrian Division. + +The London Rifle Brigade, being in support, had been instructed to dig +itself in 600 yards south-east of Fortuin. + +[Sidenote: =April 26th.=] + +The Battalion did not reach this position until 1.45 a.m., but, thanks +to an early morning mist, it was able to secure fairly good cover by +daylight. + +On this day, and daily for the next seven days, the Battalion was +heavily shelled, and suffered a high percentage of casualties, chiefly +from enfilade fire. + +Orders were received for a company to move early in the afternoon and +take up a position that would join up the gap existing between the +Somerset Light Infantry and the Hants. "C" Company was detailed, but a +personal reconnaissance by the Officer Commanding the Company (Major +Burnell) convinced higher authority that it was not only impossible to +move the men by day, but that the Hants' left could not be found. Orders +were accordingly received for the whole Battalion to move at dusk into +the gap. Moving by a somewhat circuitous route, it arrived at its +position, and dug in for the second night in succession. Owing to the +darkness, most, if not all, of the rules as to "artillery formation" +were of necessity transgressed on this occasion. + +_To face page 19._ + +[Illustration: YSER CANAL.] + +The left of its line joined the Somersets, and the right an isolated +party on the Zonnebeke-St. Julian road, which was supporting the Hants' +left some 500 yards further forward to the right front. + +[Sidenote: =April 28th.=] + +It was not until this night that the Rifle Brigade finally dug across +and joined up with the Hants, so that there was once more a continuous +line. + +[Sidenote: =April 29th.=] + +The London Rifle Brigade, having now become the second line, was moved +up on this night to relieve the 4th East Yorks. The latter, with the 4th +Yorks, were split up among the Battalions of the 11th Brigade, two +companies of the latter being attached to the London Rifle Brigade. (The +East Lancs had rejoined the Brigade by this time.) + +[Sidenote: =May 2nd.=] + +About 5 p.m., under cover of very heavy shell fire and gas, the Germans +advanced from the ridge beyond the Haanebeke stream into the dead ground +on the near side of the stream, where they dug in some 300 yards away, +though on the left they got up much closer under cover of the houses. + +The London Rifle Brigade casualties were very heavy, especially on the +right, where the ground was more open. + +Though the Battalion was affected by the gas for about 10 minutes, there +was sufficient wind to dissipate it before any serious damage was done. + +_To face page 20._ + +[Illustration: MAJOR A. S. BATES. + +_20th May, 1915._] + +There is no doubt that, during their advance from about 1,000 yards till +they got into dead ground, the Germans suffered fairly heavy casualties +from the rifle fire of the two companies on the right, and this may +possibly have deterred them from trying to leave the dead ground. With +the assistance of the two companies of the 4th Yorks and one company of +the East Lancs, which was also attached to the Battalion, the damage to +the trenches was almost all repaired during the night, and all the +wounded were evacuated. + +[Sidenote: =May 3rd.=] + +On this night the line was readjusted, and the whole Brigade retired +through the new line in rear without a single casualty. + +[Sidenote: =May 4th.=] + +The actual withdrawal commenced at 12.45 a.m., commencing from the right +of Battalions. Wieltje was timed to be reached at 1.45 a.m. + +The casualties over the period April 25th to May 4th were 16 officers +and 392 other ranks. + +[Sidenote: =May 4th--8th.=] + +These days were spent at various places in the woods behind Vlamertinghe +resting, reorganising, and dealing with accumulations of mail. + +[Sidenote: =May 9th.=] + +The Battalion moved early in the morning to the grounds of the Chateau +at Vlamertinghe. On this night and the next one it had to dig on the +east side of the canal on the north of La Brique. + +_To face page 21._ + +[Illustration: OFFICERS. + +_20th May, 1915._] + +[Sidenote: =May 11th.=] + +The Battalion moved up to the canal bank, and occupied some very +insanitary dug-outs, which had not been previously inhabited by British +troops. + +[Sidenote: =May 12th.=] + +The London Rifle Brigade took over from the Dublins a section of the +front line, and was on the extreme right of the 4th Division. A Cavalry +Division was on its immediate right. + +[Sidenote: =May 13th.=] + +Extract from Sir John French's despatch:-- + + "On the 13th May the heaviest bombardment yet + experienced broke out at 4.30 a.m., and continued + with little intermission throughout the day. . . . + The 5th London Regiment, despite very heavy + casualties, maintained their position + unfalteringly." + +Extract from John Buchan's "History of the War," Vol. VII.:-- + + "Early in the morning of Thursday, May 13th, a day + of biting north winds and drenching rains, a + terrific bombardment began. . . . The infantry on + the left of the cavalry were fiercely attacked, + but contrived to hold their own. . . . The London + Rifle Brigade had lost most of its men in the + earlier fighting. It began the day 278 strong, and + before evening 91 more had gone. One piece of + breastwork was held by Sergeant Douglas Belcher + with four survivors and two Hussars, whom he had + picked up, and though the trench was blown in, + and the Germans attacked with their infantry, he + succeeded in bluffing the enemy by rapid fire, and + holding the ground until relief came. That gallant + stand, for which the Victoria Cross was awarded, + saved the right of the 4th Division. . . ." + +_To face page 22._ + +[Illustration: LIEUT. TREVELYAN AND "A" COMPANY. + +_20th May, 1915._] + +"A" and part of "B" Companies were in the front line. "C" Company +garrisoned three fortified supporting points. The rest of "B" Company +and "D" were in support. The reinforcement of the front line commenced +at about 8 a.m. (the shelling on the Battalion's sector had started at 4 +a.m.). The distance between the front line and the supports was about +900 yards. + +The shelling did not cease till 6 p.m. Later in the evening the +Battalion was withdrawn to the second line. + +Captain Oppenheim, D.S.O., was wounded on this date, and Lieutenant H. +L. Johnston took over the duties of Adjutant. He was subsequently +confirmed in the appointment, and held it till April 7th, 1916, when he +took over command of a company, being succeeded by Captain F. H. Wallis. + +[Sidenote: =May 14th.=] + +This evening the Battalion moved into the trenches in front of La +Brique, which it had dug less than a week before. + +[Sidenote: =May 15th.=] + +The Battalion moved further forward into the second line, and two +companies of the 6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers were attached +to it. + +_To face page 23._ + +[Illustration: CAPTAIN OTTER AND "B" COMPANY. + +_20th May, 1915._] + +[Sidenote: =May 16th.=] + +The Battalion was withdrawn to the canal bank. + +[Sidenote: =May 19th.=] + +Orders were received that the London Rifle Brigade was to be withdrawn +and sent the next day to General Headquarters. The Battalion marched +that evening to Vlamertinghe, and was billeted there. + +[Sidenote: =May 20th.=] + +The Battalion marched past the Divisional Commander after he had +inspected it, and expressed his deep appreciation of all it had done +since April 25th. It boarded the motor-buses, and proceeded to General +Headquarters. + +The London Rifle Brigade thus left the 4th Division after six months. + +The Brigade, Divisional, and Corps Commanders had all personally thanked +the Battalion for the work it had done, and congratulated it on its +behaviour under the most trying circumstances. But perhaps even more +valued were the farewell letters from the Battalions of the 11th +Brigade, showing, as they did, that they really felt the London Rifle +Brigade to have become part of their Regular Brigade. + +The London Rifle Brigade arrived at Tatinghem, and enjoyed ten days' +complete rest during perfect weather. + +The Rangers and Kensingtons had also been withdrawn from the line. + +_To face page 24._ + +[Illustration: SEC.-LIEUT. F. D. CHARLES AND "C" COMPANY. + +_20th May, 1915._] + +[Sidenote: =June 1st.=] + +These three Battalions were amalgamated for work on lines of +communications. This entailed the handing over of all the active service +equipment, and also all transport. The latter was a bitter blow, as the +work of the transport, personnel, and animals had been beyond all +praise. It is worth noting that in spite of the very heavy work of the +previous four weeks the transport had actually accomplished the +thirty-mile trek from the Salient in under 20 hours. + +[Sidenote: =Lines of Communication.=] + +[Sidenote: =June 1st--Oct. 1st.=] + +This period calls for no detailed treatment. Headquarters, and the +balance of the men not employed at the different railheads, remained at +St. Omer, first in the artillery barracks, and from July 1st under +canvas. + +The numbers at the various railheads altered very considerably from time +to time, e.g., on June 6th 210 other ranks were scattered over fifteen +stations, and on September 24th there were 374 other ranks at twenty-one +different stations. + +In addition to these details, the Battalion was called upon to furnish +escorts and large parties for detraining work. + +During the battle of Loos the Kensingtons and London Rifle Brigade +between them furnished all the escorts for German prisoners, every +available man, including grooms and officers' servants, being used. + +The variety of the work on lines of communication provided scope for +every type of individual--clerks to R.T.O.'s, telephone operators, +guards, shell fuse setters, navvies on coal wharves, caretakers of a +horse rest camp, hospital orderlies--while from time to time at small +stations non-commissioned officers were left in complete charge. + +_To face page 25._ + +[Illustration: SEC.-LIEUT. WALLIS AND "D" COMPANY. + +_20th May, 1915._] + +From September 2nd to 30th the following four officers were lent to the +Gas Brigade, and took part in the battle of Loos:--Captain R. E. Otter, +Lieutenant F. H. Wallis, and Sec.-Lieutenants A. B. White and F. D. +Charles. + +On August 9th the composite Battalion was broken up, and each unit +regained its individuality. This did not make any practical difference +until October 2nd, when the London Rifle Brigade was transferred from +the lines of communication to General Headquarters troops, and marched +to Blendecques, the band of the Artists being kindly lent by their +Commanding Officer to play it out. + +While the Battalion was under canvas at General Headquarters, the +officers messed in the Salle d'Honneur of the 8th Regiment of Infantry. +On leaving, a present of a glass inkpot, with the regimental crest of +the London Rifle Brigade, was sent to this French regiment as a small +memento of the occasion. A most cordial and charming reply was received +by Colonel Bates from Colonel Roubert, in which the latter looked +forward to seeing the London Rifle Brigade once again in his barracks +after victory had crowned the Allies' arms. + +[Sidenote: =Oct. 2nd--25th.=] + +The stay at Blendecques was intended to be a period of training before +being sent back to the front. The actual period was 23 days, but, as it +took more than a week to collect all the details from the various +railheads, little more than a fortnight's full training was possible. + +The reluctance of the authorities at these railheads to part with their +London Rifle Brigade detachments, even after their reliefs had arrived, +although complimentary, was not a little annoying, but the grateful +letters received by the Commanding Officer in some measure compensated +for the delay. + +These three weeks were a period of remobilisation. Most of the +non-commissioned officers who had survived Ypres had taken commissions. +All the specialists had to be retrained. The transport and detailed +equipment had to be indented for. The essentials were received by +degrees, and actually completed a few days before the Battalion moved. + +[Sidenote: =Oct. 25th.=] + +The London Rifle Brigade moved by motor-bus in pouring rain to join the +3rd Division, which was resting east of Cassel. It relieved the +Honourable Artillery Company in the 8th Infantry Brigade. The latter +Battalion returned in the same buses. The transport had marched on the +previous day. + +Incessant rain and frequent inspections, combined with training on the +lines laid down by the new Division, employed the time up to November +23rd. + +_To face page 26._ + +[Illustration: SEC.-LIEUT. BARKER AND M.G. TEAM. + +_20th May, 1915._] + +_To face page 27._ + +[Illustration: THE BARRACKS, GENERAL HEADQUARTERS.] + +[Sidenote: =Nov. 23rd.=] + +The Battalion marched to Poperinghe. For the first time it now had a +bombing section of 2 officers and 70 other ranks; a sniping detachment +was also organised. + +[Sidenote: =Nov. 29th.=] + +The Battalion relieved the Liverpool Scottish in the front line. The +trenches were in a desperate state, with very few traverses, no complete +communication trenches or second line, and mud quite indescribable. They +were also overlooked, and enfiladed by the enemy. The tour was normally +seven days, with two companies in the front line and two in reserve near +Battalion Headquarters. + +Work was rendered very difficult owing to the water-logged nature of the +ground. + +Ration parties took as much as seven hours to accomplish one round +journey. + +On the whole, the Battalion was amazingly fortunate while in these +trenches. It suffered casualties from occasional shelling and sniping, +but on certainly two occasions the enemy bombarded the trenches and blew +in fifty yards of parapet without inflicting a single casualty. + +The march to and from the trenches was an exceedingly trying one. Only +once was part of the Battalion able to use motor-buses, but, after the +first tour, use was made of the "Ypres Express," to whose Commanding +Officer the London Rifle Brigade will ever remain indebted. + +The Battalion was in the trenches during the abortive gas attack on +December 19th, but was not affected by the gas, which passed just +behind it. _To face page 28._ + +[Illustration: POPERINGHE, 1915.] + +Christmas Day was spent in Poperinghe. + +[Sidenote: =1916.= + +=Jan. 4th.=] + +On leaving the trenches on this date the Battalion was kept in Brigade +reserve. Apart from heavy night-working parties, the week was not too +uncomfortable, though baths were impossible. + +[Sidenote: =Jan. 18th.=] + +The London Rifle Brigade returned to rest under canvas instead of to +billets. + +[Sidenote: =Feb. 1st--8th.=] + +Owing to the relief of the 3rd Division this period was one of variety. +The Battalion marched from trenches to rest, and back into reserve. It +was attached to three different Brigades, and for a time was Divisional +Troops. Eventually, on the 8th, orders were received to entrain the next +day. The various outlying details were collected before midnight. + +[Sidenote: =Feb. 9th.=] + +The Battalion entrained for the South. + +[Sidenote: =Gommecourt.= + +=July 1st.=] + +This fighting is too recent for any details, however bare, to be given. + +Previous to this date the Battalion, now part of as fine a Territorial +Division as France had ever seen, took its ordinary tour of training and +trenches. It was, of course, known that the Division was going "over the +top" at the beginning of the offensive, and all training was carried out +with this great end in view. + +_To face page 29._ + +[Illustration: VOORMEZEELE CHURCH.] + +The following extract from the account published in the Press is given +here, not because the writer of these notes does not feel able to +give his own account, but because he might unwittingly say more than the +Censor would feel able to pass:-- + + "I am about to give, on first-hand information, an + account of the part which has been played by + certain of our famous London Regiments. These + regiments, which included the London Rifle + Brigade, the Queen Victoria's Rifles, the Rangers, + the Queen's Westminsters, and London Scottish, had + assigned to them certain objectives near + Gommecourt, towards the northern end of our + original line of advance, where, as is well known, + owing to the extraordinary preparations which the + enemy had made in that direction, we did not fare + so well as we have done, and continue to do, + further south. The London Regiments, which fought + with magnificent gallantry and tenacity, did, in + fact, accomplish their primary objects, but, owing + to circumstances beyond their control, they + subsequently had to retire to a line which nearly + corresponds to that they occupied before the + battle began. . . ." + +For its work on this day the Corps, of which the Division formed a part, +received a special verbal message of thanks, delivered by one of Sir +Douglas Haig's A.D.C.'s. This was subsequently confirmed in writing by +the Chief of the General Staff. + +_To face page 30._ + +[Illustration: TRENCH BATTALION HEADQUARTERS. + +_November, 1915--February, 1916._] + +Lieut.-Colonel Bates, D.S.O., was given sick leave in August, and Major +R. H. Husey, M.C., took command. Under his leadership the Battalion +added to its laurels in the fighting during September. + + +SECOND BATTALION. + +At the beginning of September, 1914, permission was obtained to form a +second Battalion. Recruiting was commenced at Headquarters in Bunhill +Row on the 3rd, and the Battalion was filled in one day. So great was +the rush of recruits that, had it been possible to obtain leave to do +so, another Battalion could easily have been formed. Great care was +taken, under these advantageous circumstances, in the selection of +recruits. Those taken, combined with the draft from the 1st Battalion of +men who were unable at that time to undertake the foreign service +obligation, made up a fine Battalion. + +Of the officers on formation, the following had formerly served in the +Regiment, or were serving, and transferred from the 1st Battalion under +the home service condition:-- + + Lieut.-Colonel G. R. Tod, formerly Adjutant for + five years, 1898-1903. + + Major G. Harvest. + + Quartermaster and Hon. Major J. Guppy. + +_To face page 31._ + +[Illustration: ENTRANCE TO CAMP, REST BILLETS, MAY, 1916, WHERE THE LORD +MAYOR SAW THE BATTALION ON PARADE.] + + Captain C. G. H. Macgill, M.V.O., who acted as + Adjutant until the formation of the Home Service + Provisional Battalion. + + Captain S. Bowers. + + Captain C. R. Bland. + + Captain H. B. Prior. + + Captain C. E. Johnstone. + + Captain C. Furze. + + Lieutenant B. E. Bland. + + +THIRD BATTALION. + +The 3rd Battalion was raised on November 30th, 1914. The first +Commanding Officer was Colonel H. C. Cholmondeley, C.B. (see pages 3 and +4). The Battalion was fortunate in having the help of several old +members of the Regiment in the commissioned and non-commissioned ranks. +They were invaluable in carrying on to the new men the traditions and +ésprit de corps of the London Rifle Brigade. + +After some five months in London, the Battalion proceeded at the end of +April by train to Wimbledon, and on, by route march, to Tadworth, where +it went under canvas. Soon after its arrival Colonel Cholmondeley was +given command of a 4th Line Brigade, and the command of the Battalion +was taken over by Major Norman C. King, T.D., who went out to the front +with the 1st Battalion, and had been invalided home. Lieut.-Colonel +King, being the officer with the senior permanent rank on the cadre of +the Regiment, now commands it. + +The system of training adopted was that of a public school; that is to +say, the company represented the house, and the Captain the house +master, who administered the company, but was not responsible for its +training. The instructors in each subject--e.g., drill, musketry, +bombing, etc.--each had their own staff of assistants, and every platoon +was taken up in turn for its lesson. This represented the forms of a +school. The system proved very successful, and received commendation +from high authority. It was subsequently recommended for adoption over +the whole of the Southern Command, but was too much of a departure from +tradition to be taken over as it stood, though it was recommended in a +modified form. + +As the summer of 1915 passed on, officers from the 1st Battalion, who +had been wounded in the second battle of Ypres in April-May, were posted +to the 3rd Battalion on recovery. Thus began the circulation between the +1st and 3rd Battalions which has proved so invaluable in keeping close +touch and sympathy between those at the front and those at home. + +On November 12th the Battalion moved to billets in Sutton, and received +the greatest kindness and consideration there. Everything possible was +done for the comfort of the Battalion, and not the least of the +kindnesses received were the services at Christchurch, under the Rev. +Courtney Gale. Nothing could have exceeded the warmth and vigour of the +church parades, which were much appreciated by all ranks. + +On January 10th, 1916, the Battalion moved to its present camp. + + +ADMINISTRATIVE CENTRE. + +The Headquarters and Depôt or Administrative Centre are situated at 130, +Bunhill Row, E.C., and are in charge of Captain H. Ferguson, to whom the +Regiment owes a considerable debt of gratitude for the whole-hearted way +he has thrown himself into the work since he joined. Having been private +secretary to the late Lord Roberts, he has brought a ripe knowledge and +warm appreciation of the Territorial Force to bear on the thousand and +one details which have to be arranged from Headquarters. Here it is that +recruits receive their equipment and their first insight into drill. + +The finances of the Regiment since war broke out have been ably looked +after by Major C. W. Cornish, V.D., who took up the reins again after +having laid them down in 1908. + +The London Rifle Brigade Mutual Aid Society centres in Bunhill Row, and +a copy of its scheme is given in Appendix F. + +The Prisoners' Aid Fund, for sending food and warm clothing to +non-commissioned officers and riflemen of the Regiment who are +prisoners, is also controlled from Headquarters. Weekly parcels are sent +by ladies of the Regiment to any whose relatives are not in a position +to send them all they require. + + + + +APPENDIX A. + + +HONOURS AND REWARDS. + + + _Victoria Cross._ + + 9539 Lance-Sergeant Douglas Walter Belcher (now Sec.-Lieutenant, Queen + Victoria's Rifles). + + + _K.C.V.O._ + + The Bishop of London. + + + _C.M.G._ + + Lieut.-Colonel W. D. The Earl Cairns. + + + _D.S.O._ + + Major A. S. Bates. + + Captain A. C. Oppenheim, King's Royal Rifle Corps. + + + _Military Cross_ (10). + + Captain R. H. Husey. + + Captain J. R. Somers-Smith. + + Captain H. L. Johnston. + + Captain C. W. Trevelyan. + + Captain F. H. Wallis. + + Captain R. Russell. + + Captain F. H. Crews. + + Lieutenant E. R. Williamson (with a Trench Mortar + Battery). + + Sec.-Lieutenant A. K. Dodds (attached 181st Company, Royal Engineers). + + Sec.-Lieutenant R. E. Petley. + + + _D.C.M._ (12). + + 9338 Sergeant (now Captain, Hampshire R., T.F.) W. F. Pothecary. + + 6968 Signalling Sergeant E. A. Adams. + + 8541 Sergeant R. V. Todd. + + 9435 Transport Sergeant A. Gordon (now Sec.-Lieutenant, London Rifle + Brigade). + + 515 Sergeant W. M. Lilley. + + 9996 Sergeant W. A. Roulston (killed). + + 9497 Corporal (now Lieutenant, London Rifle Brigade) G. G. Boston. + + 75 Lance-Corporal T. H. Stransom (now Sec.-Lieutenant, London Rifle + Brigade). + + 11003 Lance-Corporal C. Taylor. + + 1006 Rifleman J. S. Lindsay (now Sec.-Lieutenant, London Rifle + Brigade). + + 8896 Rifleman R. S. Clark. + + 10839 Rifleman E. L. Kench. + + + _Military Medal_ (28). + + 1867 Regimental Sergeant-Major J. Adams. + + 660 Sergeant (now Sec.-Lieutenant, London Rifle Brigade) P. T. Dyer. + + 10835 Sergeant F. C. Keele. + + 9412 Sergeant (now Sec.-Lieutenant, London Rifle Brigade) E. H. Slade. + + 1131 Sergeant W. G. T. Mason. + + 776 Corporal R. F. Ebbetts. + + 9535 Corporal (now Sec.-Lieutenant, Lincolnshire Regiment) P. + Godsmark. + + 9921 Lce.-Cpl. (now Sergeant) L. W. Billington. + + 9289 Lance-Corporal (now Sec.-Lieutenant, London Rifle Brigade) + H. J. F. Crisp. + + 1621 Lance-Corporal J. H. Foaden. + + 1220 Lance-Corporal (now at Officers' Cadet School) V. L. A. Fowle. + + 9899 Lance-Corporal J. O. Haylock (now Sergeant-Dispenser, + Northumbrian Field Ambulance). + + 9471 Lance-Corporal (now Sec.-Lieutenant, Cheshire Regiment) H. J. C. + Rowe. + + 9137 Lance-Corporal (now Sec.-Lieutenant, King's Own Royal Lancaster + Regiment) R. H. Stonnill. + + 9453 Lance-Corporal (now Corporal) H. Turner. + + 762 Lance-Corporal R. E. Parslow. + + 787 Sergeant C. W. Bradford (killed). + + 1124 Rifleman H. G. Buck. + + 1289 Rifleman F. A. Crocker. + + 92 Rifleman (now Sec.-Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery) W. E. + Dunnett. + + 2516 Rifleman H. W. Dunk. + + 2822 Rifleman A. F. H. Edington. + + 9457 Rifleman (now Sec.-Lieutenant, London Regiment) G. Gordon. + + 10535 Rifleman W. Hawthorn. + + 161 Rifleman (now Sec.-Lieutenant, London Regiment) + E. W. G. Hodgkinson. + + 9609 Rifleman (now Sec.-Lieutenant, London Regiment) E. B. Latham. + + 9597 Rifleman (now Sec.-Lieutenant, London Regiment) W. E. Lockhart. + + 147 Rifleman (Sec.-Lieutenant, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry) A. C. + Thomas (killed). + + + _Meritorious Service Medal_ (2). + + 129 Acting-Sergt. D. Mackay. + + 9587 Rfn. G. W. Hunter. + + + _The Montenegrin Decoration of Danilo._ + + Lieut.-Col. R. H. Husey, M.C. + + + _Croix de Guerre_ (with palm leaves). + + 515 Sergeant W. M. Lilley. + +All above Orders, Decorations, and Medals were won by officers, +non-commissioned officers, and riflemen while serving with, or wearing +the uniform of, the Regiment. + +The following officers, who served with or in the ranks of the 1st +Battalion, London Rifle Brigade, have gained the award shown after their +names since being transferred, or commissioned, to other Regiments[A]:-- + + Sec.-Lieutenant H. H. Linzell, The Border Regiment, Military Cross. + + Sec.-Lieutenant D. Blofeld, The London Regiment, Military Cross + (killed). + + Sec.-Lieutenant S. R. Hogg, Royal Fusiliers, Military Cross. + +FOOTNOTE: + +[A] This list does not claim to be complete. Any additions should be +sent to the Officer in Charge Depôt, where a record will be kept. + + +[Illustration: Map] + + + + +APPENDIX B. + + +The following officers and other ranks have been mentioned in +despatches:-- + + Lieut.-Colonel W. D. Earl Cairns. + + The Bishop of London. + + Lieut.-Colonel A. S. Bates (3). + + Major A. D. Ducat, M.B., T.D., R.A.M.C. (T.F.). + + Captain A. C. Oppenheim, King's Royal Rifle Corps (2). + + Captain R. H. Husey. + + Captain J. R. Somers-Smith. + + Captain C. W. Trevelyan. + + Lieutenant R. Russell. + + Sec.-Lieutenant W. L. Willett. + + Sec.-Lieutenant A. K. Dodds. + + 709 Company Sergeant-Major A. J. R. Macveagh. + + 8488 Company Sergeant-Major (now Sec.-Lieutenant, Royal Field + Artillery) B. K. Manbey. + + 8929 Corporal (now Sec.-Lieutenant, King's Royal Rifle Corps) T. H. + Jenkin. + + 9391 Rifleman R. E. Peck. + + +The following officer who served in the ranks of the 1st Battalion, +London Rifle Brigade, has also been mentioned in despatches since being +commissioned to another regiment[B]:-- + + Temporary Sec.-Lieutenant L. E. Schultz, Wiltshire Regiment (killed). + +FOOTNOTE: + +[B] This list does not claim to be complete. Any additions should be +sent to the Officer in Charge Depôt, where a record will be kept. + + + + +APPENDIX C. + + +Alphabetical list, by ranks--the latter as on 15/8/16--of London Rifle +Brigade officers with service in France up to that date, ~excluding +those now serving whose names have not been passed by the Censor for +publication~:-- + + _Lieutenant-Colonels._ + + Joined B.E.F as + NAME. an Officer. Left B.E.F. + + Bates, A. S. 5/11/14 15/8/16 + + Cairns, W. D., Earl 5/11/14 9/4/15 + + King, N. C. 5/11/14 6/1/15 + + Matthey, C. G. R. 5/11/14 12/1/15 + + + _Majors._ + + Burnell, C. D. 5/11/14 7/5/15 Wounded + + MacGeagh, H. D. F. 5/11/14 13/1/15 + 31/8/15 3/12/15 + + Soames, M. H. 5/11/14 17/7/15 + + + _Captains._ + + Alcock, J. E. 20/12/14 21/2/15 Wounded + + Bland, B. E. 23/12/14 9/3/15 + + Charles, F. D. 8/5/15 16/9/16 Wounded + + Charles, R. D. S. 19/2/15 7/5/15 Wounded + + Cholmeley, G. H. 5/11/14 21/2/15 + 18/7/15 -/7/16 Wounded + + de Cologan, A. T. B. 18/7/15 1/7/16 Prisoner + + Harvey, B. S. 20/12/14 3/5/15 Wounded + 5/8/15 1/7/16 Killed + + Johnston, H. L. 5/11/14 23/6/16 Wounded + + Kirby, A. G. 5/11/14 20/12/14 Wounded + + Kitching, G. C. 5/11/14 17/2/15 + + Large, E. L. 5/11/14 21/5/15 Died of wounds + + Lintott, A. L. 5/11/14 20/1/15 + 21/5/15 19/11/15 + + Morrison, G. H. 5/11/14 31/3/15 Killed + + Nobbs, H. G. 8/8/16 9/9/16 Wounded & + Prisoner + Now exchanged + + Robinson, J. G. 5/11/14 25/1/16 + + Russell, R. 11/2/15 21/4/16 + + Somers-Smith, J. R. 5/11/14 3/6/15 + 24/10/15 1/7/16 Killed + + White, A. B. 19/2/15 7/5/15 Wounded + 18/7/15 20/11/15 + + Wills, E. C. 8/5/15 13/10/16 Wounded + + + _Lieutenants._ + + Bantoft, E. S. 5/7/16 11/9/16 Died of wounds + + Beard, H. C. 18/3/15 3/5/15 Wounded + + Boston, G. G. 8/5/15 27/7/16 Wounded + + Bromiley, B. 24/12/15 5/7/16 + + Cartwright, G. H. G. M. 5/11/14 11/5/15 Wounded + + Clode-Baker, G. E. 24/12/15 1/7/16 Killed + + Dodds, A. K. 28/2/15 11/10/15 Gassed + + Flindt, R. E. H. 11/2/15 7/5/15 Wounded + + Fursdon, G. E. S. 5/11/14 2/5/15 Wounded + 18/7/15 4/9/15 + + Long, C. W. 27/5/16 27/7/16 + + Maynard, M. J. 8/5/15 -/10/16 Missing + + Oldfield, P. B. B. 1/5/15 27/7/16 Wounded + + Petersen, J. R. S. 5/11/14 5/5/16 + + Pocock, B. L. E. 24/12/15 2/7/16 Wounded + + Price, H. B. 5/11/14 3/5/15 Killed + + Sedgwick, A. E. 26/2/15 6/5/15 Wounded + 12/8/16 10/9/16 Killed + + Slessor, P. 5/11/14 22/12/14 + + Titley, P. 19/1/16 26/6/16 + + Vincent, H. G. 5/11/14 3/5/15 + + Williamson, E. R. 24/12/15 10/9/16 Wounded & + missing, + believed + killed + + Wimble, A. S. 29/4/15 7/5/15 Wounded + + + _Second-Lieutenants._ + + Appleton, E. R. 18/7/15 20/12/15 + + Aste, P. J. 18/7/15 4/2/16 + + Baldwin, N. E. 3/8/16 -/10/16 Wounded & + missing + + Balkwill, C. V. 27/5/16 1/7/16 Killed + + Balls, F. A. 27/5/16 11/7/16 + + Barker, H. C. 29/4/15 22/1/16 + 28/3/16 24/4/16 + + Benns, A. L. 5/3/16 1/7/16 Killed + + Betts, A. W. T. 2/5/15 17/5/15 Wounded + + Brodie, C. G. 18/7/15 15/9/15 + + Camden, H. M. 11/1/16 9/2/16 + + Carrier, J. R. 8/5/16 8/10/16 Killed + + Collis, L. W. 2/8/16 20/9/16 + + Cotter, G. H. 11/2/15 12/4/15 Killed + + Crisp, H. J. F. 27/5/16 14/9/16 Wounded + + Doust, C. B. 14/3/16 1/7/16 Killed + + Dyer, P. T. 19/7/16 29/9/16 Wounded + + Feast, A. C. 8/5/15 17/5/15 + + Forbes, K. 5/11/14 10/2/15 Killed + + Gardiner, W. E. M. 8/5/16 19/7/16 Killed + + Gooding, H. R. W. 19/4/15 13/5/15 Killed + + Hill, R. L. 13/8/15 6/6/16 + + Hogg, S. R. 2/5/15 23/1/16 + + Howe, G. H. 27/5/16 19/8/16 + + Hewitt, F. E. 11/1/16 20/5/16 + + Keddie, G. D. F. 1/5/15 7/6/15 + + Lindsay, J. S. 19/7/16 30/9/16 Wounded + + Lines, S. M. 8/5/15 13/5/15 Killed + + Lintott, R. 29/4/15 3/5/15 Killed + + Lydall, R. F. 9/6/16 1/7/16 Wounded + + Moore, E. G. 19/7/16 17/9/16 Wounded + + Petley, R. E. 27/5/16 1/7/16 Wounded + + Pocock, B. E. 29/4/15 13/5/15 Missing, + believed + killed + + Pogose, I. R. 27/7/15 2/7/16 Died of wounds + + Pool, E. E. 11/1/16 9/5/16 + + Prior, T. A. 5/3/16 19/5/16 + + Radford, P. D. 19/7/16 21/9/16 Wounded + + Rose, E. W. 22/7/15 1/7/16 Wounded + + Rose, O. H. 27/5/16 18/6/16 + + Sawbridge, B. F. 8/5/16 1/7/16 Wounded + + Sell, C. H. 19/1/16 -/9/16 Wounded + + Sharman, A. P. 19/7/16 11/9/16 Wounded + + Smith, H. 19/1/16 1/7/16 Wounded + + Stransom, J. H. 29/4/15 30/4/15 Wounded + + Ticehurst, G. H. 4/6/16 26/9/16 Wounded + + Thomas, E. G. 27/5/16 5/7/16 Wounded + + Warner, A. 27/5/16 1/7/16 Killed + + Wheatley, F. M. 11/1/16 14/2/16 Wounded + + Whitehead, L. E. 19/4/15 2/5/15 Wounded + + Willett, W. L. 5/11/14 13/12/14 Wounded + + Wray, M. 8/5/15 4/6/15 + + + + +APPENDIX D. + + +List of attached officers who have served with the 1st Battalion, London +Rifle Brigade, in France, ~excluding those now with it whose names have +not been passed by the Censor for publication~:-- + + +_Adjutant on Mobilisation._ + + Capt. A. C. Oppenheim, King's Royal Rifle Corps, wounded 13/5/15. + + +_Medical Officers._ + + NAME & REGIMENT. Joined Battn. Left Battn. + + Maj. A. D. Ducat, M.D., T.D. 5/11/14 27/2/15 + + Capt. L. Crombie 12/5/16 -/8/16 + + Capt. J. M. Moyes 6/5/15 31/1/16 + + Lieut. Edmunds 27/2/15 28/4/15 Wounded + + Lt. D. T. C. Frew 3/2/16 12/5/16 + + Lt. J. D. Marshall 31/1/16 3/2/16 + + +_Second-Lieutenants._[C] + + Cole, C. H. 14/7/16 4/10/16 Killed + + Hughes, C. R. 14/7/16 17/9/16 Wounded + + Matthews, H. L. L. 9/7/16 9/9/16 Killed + + Newling, A. J. 14/7/16 7/10/16 + + Sanderson, G. S. 14/7/16 21/7/16 Killed + + Unwin, R. W. 14/7/16 -/10/16 Killed + + Wilkins, J. W. 14/7/16 -/9/16 Wounded + +FOOTNOTE: + +[C] All 11th London. + + + + +APPENDIX E. + +_Commissions._ + + +Since the 1st Battalion landed in France, 535 of its non-commissioned +officers and men have received commissions. + +The majority of these were sent to the Cadet School at General +Headquarters or to England, while the balance, just over 200, obtained +their commissions when at home sick or recovering from wounds. Out of +this number 65 (21 of "A," 20 of "B," 15 of "C," and 9 of "D" Companies) +have been given commissions in the Regiment, and 30 of these received +them direct in the field in the 1st Battalion. + +For a Regiment, whose 1st Battalion was fighting, the total given below +is a proud achievement. It was always a wrench to part with candidates, +but the figures prove that the strictures, often heard, that Commanding +Officers refused to part with their best men were unfounded in the case +of the London Rifle Brigade. + +A few commissions were granted before the 1st Battalion went abroad, but +no details are, at present, available. + + Commissioned or transferred to O.T.C's + and Officer Cadet Battalions. + + 1st Battalion 535 + 2nd Battalion 122 + 3rd Battalion 51 + ---- + Total 708 + ---- + + + + +APPENDIX F. + +THE LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE MUTUAL AID FUND. + + +_Trustees._ + + Lieut.-Colonel Earl Waldegrave, P.C., V.D. + Lieut.-Colonel Earl Cairns, C.M.G. + The Bishop of London, P.C., K.C.V.O. + + +_Committee._ + + Major C. W. Cornish, V.D., nominated by the Trustees. + W. J. M. Burton, Esq. (late London Rifle Brigade), nominated by + the Trustees. + Newton Dunn, Esq. (late London Rifle Brigade), nominated by 1st + Battalion. + Major C. R. Bland, nominated by 2nd Battalion. + Company Quartermaster-Sergeant F. H. Anderson, nominated by 3rd + Battalion. + + * * * * * + +Under the above title a fund has been inaugurated with the object of +helping officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the Regiment who +may be in need of assistance owing to injuries or incapacity due to the +war, or to aid their dependants. + +The Fund is administered by a Committee of five members, two of whom +have been nominated by the Trustees, and are old members of the +Regiment, and one member for each of the three Battalions, to be +nominated by the Officers Commanding. + +Support will be gladly received from friends and members of the +Regiment, and donations may be sent to Captain H. S. Ferguson at +Headquarters, 130, Bunhill Row, who has kindly consented to act as +honorary secretary and treasurer to the Fund. + + + + +ADDITIONS. + + * * * * * + +[Transcriber's Note: These additions have been made to the text.] + +_Add to bottom of page 37_, + + + "MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL (2). + + No. 129 Acting-Sergt. D. MACKAY. + + No. 9587 Rfn. G. W. HUNTER." + + + * * * * * + +_Add at top of page 38_, + + "THE MONTENEGRIN DECORATION OF DANILO, + + Lieut.-Col. R. H. HUSEY, M.C." + + * * * * * + +_Page 41, col. 4_, + + Captain H. G. NOBBS. _Add_ "Now exchanged." + + * * * * * + +Transcriber's Notes: + +Italic text is denoted by _; bold by =; and underlined text by ~. + +Page 1, comma added ((City of London) Battalion, The) + +Page 2, period added to sidenote (Commanding Officers.) + +Page 15, "couduroy" changed to "corduroy" (corduroy no longer stops) + +Page 28, period added (To face page 28.) + +Page 28, Illustration, caption was originally in ALL CAPS. 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