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2nd Battalion, Border Regiment
The 2nd Battalion, The Border Regiment were based at Pembroke Dock when war broke out in August 1914. On the 5th of September they moved to Lyndhurst to join 20th Brigade in 7th Division. They
landed at Zeebrugge on the 6th of October 1914 ready for action on the Western Front.
They saw action in The First Battle of Ypres at teh end of 1914 and in 1915 were in action at:
The Battle of Neuve Chapelle, The Battle of Aubers, The Battle of Festubert, The second action of Givenchy, and The Battle of Loos. In 1916 they moved to The Somme and were in action at Mametz,
The Battle of Bazentin and the attacks on High Wood, The Battle of Delville Wood, The Battle of Guillemont and Operations on the Ancre
In 1917 they took part in The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line,
The Arras offensive in the flanking operations around Bullecourt, and the Third Balle of Ypres includig; The Battle of Polygon Wood, The Battle of Broodseinde, The Battle of Poelcapelle and
The Second Battle of Passchendaele. At the end of the year the 7th Divsion were ordered to Italy
taking up positions in the line along the River Piave in late January 1918. In October 1918 they had a central role in crossing the River Piave, and were in action in the Battle of Vittoria Veneto.
4th Oct 1914 Orders Received
5th Oct 1914 2nd Borders embark 2nd Battalion Border regiment embarked on Troopships Turkoman and Minneapolis at Southampton.
5th Oct 1914 On the Move
6th Oct 1914 On the Move
7th Oct 1914 On the Move
8th Oct 1914 On the Move
9th Oct 1914 Anxiety
10th Oct 1914 Withdrawal
11th Oct 1914 Hostile Forces
11th Oct 1914 Orders
12th Oct 1914 On the March
13th Oct 1914 Enemy Closes
14th Oct 1914 On the March 
15th Oct 1914 Hostile Column
16th Oct 1914 Line Advanced
17th Oct 1914 Enemy Active
18th Oct 1914 Planning
19th Oct 1914 Hard Fighting
20th Oct 1914 Defensive Line
21st Oct 1914 Hard Fighting
22nd Oct 1914 Bombardment
23rd Oct 1914 Under Fire
24th Oct 1914 Enemy Break Through
25th Oct 1914 Enemy Break Through
26th Oct 1914 Forced Back
27th Oct 1914 Orders Received
28th Oct 1914 Artillery Active
29th Oct 1914 Hard Fighting
30th Oct 1914 Hard Fighting
31st Oct 1914 Hard Fighting
18th March 1915 Reliefs
21st Sep 1915 Orders
16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme
24th of November 1915 Marched to Locon
1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets
11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment
10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens
9th February 1916 Call Ups
26th Feb 1917 Advance Made
30th Jul 1917 Reliefs
31st Jul 1917 Shelling
2nd Aug 1917 Artillery Active
3rd Aug 1917 Relief
5th Aug 1917 Shelling
6th Aug 1917 Shelling
7th Aug 1917 Shelling
8th Aug 1917 Relief
9th Aug 1917 Refitting
10th Aug 1917 On the March
11th Aug 1917 Training
25th Aug 1917 Fair
29th Aug 1917 On the Move
30th Aug 1917 On the Move
31st Aug 1917 Reorganisation
1st Sep 1917 On the March
2nd Sep 1917 Sports
3rd Sep 1917 On the March
4th Sep 1917 Training
14th Sep 1917 Change of Camp
16th Sep 1917 On the March
17th Sep 1917 On the March
24th Sep 1917 Training
25th Sep 1917 Training
28th Sep 1917 Training
29th Sep 1917 On the March
30th Sep 1917 On the Move
1st Oct 1917 On the March
2nd Oct 1917 On the March
3rd Oct 1917 Attack Made
4th Oct 1917 In Action
5th Oct 1917 In Action
6th Oct 1917 Reliefs
7th Oct 1917 Reliefs Complete
8th Oct 1917 Into Dugouts
9th Oct 1917 Reliefs
10th Oct 1917 On the March
11th Oct 1917 Training
23rd Oct 1917 On the March
24th Oct 1917 Reliefs
25th Oct 1917 Enemy Active
26th Oct 1917 Attack Made
27th Oct 1917 On the Move
28th Oct 1917 Into Billets
31st Oct 1917 Training
13th of April 1918 Report
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Those known to have served with2nd Battalion, Border Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Acton VC Abraham. Pte. (d.16th May 1916)
- Alcock Alexander Francis. Sgt. (d.25th Oct 1914)
- Barnes Herbert. Pte. (d.23rd Oct 1914)
- Bell Reginald Atkinson. Pte. (d.14th July 1916)
- Bowley Thomas Henry. CSM. (d.26th Oct 1914)
- Callaghan Peter. Pte. (d.16th May 1915)
- Caughey George. Pte. (d.16th May 1915)
- Chadds MID, MC. Harry Francis. Maj.
- Cholmondeley C. A. J.. Capt
- Clay Reuben. Pte. (d.26th Oct 1917)
- Coan Francis. Pte.
- Douglas Robert. Pte. (d.26th October 1914)
- Dunning William Edwin. Pte. (d.18th Dec 1914)
- East Edward William. (d.11th Mar 1915)
- England James. Pte. (d.23rd June 1916)
- England James. Pte. (d.23rd June 1916)
- Fulton Adam. Capt.
- Gamage Frederick William. Pte. (d.1st July 1916)
- Gutteridge Walter Cyril. Cpl. (d.4th Oct 1917)
- Hahner Ernest Albert. Pte. (d.16th May 1915)
- Hardy Thomas.
- Henry Charles William. Pte. (d.22nd Feb1916)
- Hetherington George. Pte. (d.30th Nov 1916)
- Johnson Frederick. Pte. (d.1st Aug 1918)
- Jones Christopher Edward. Pte. (d.26th Oct 1914)
- Livesey Vincent. L/Cpl.
- Marriott Harry. Pte. (d.25th September 1915)
- McClair H.. Pte. (d.1st Aug 1918)
- McLaughlin Robert William. Pte. (d.2nd Nov 1914)
- Morris Robert. Cpl. (d.12th January 1915)
- Mosdell MM. Arthur. Sgt.
- O'Brien Thomas William. Pte. (d.26th Sep 1915)
- Painter George Harry. L/Cpl. (d.29th April 1916)
- Perriss Charles Henry. Pte.
- Scrivens John. Pte. (d.18 Mar 1916)
- Shaw Harold. (d.31st December 1916)
- Slater Aquila Lund. Pte. (d.20th June 1917)
- Taylor Harold Ruth. Pte. (d.1th July 1917)
- Threlkeld Thomas William. (d.22nd Feb 1916)
- Todhunter Jeremiah. A/Cpl.
- Welsh Nicholas. Pte. (d.16th May 1915)
- Wilkinson Leonard Norman. L/Sgt (d.25th Sep 1915)
- Wormall John Edward.
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Pte. Abraham Acton VC 2nd Btn. B Coy. Border Regiment (d.16th May 1916) Abraham Acton was killed in action on the 16th of May 1915, aged 21 and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial in France.
He wasthe son of Robert and Elizabeth Eleanor Acton, of 4 Regent Square, Senhouse St., Whitehaven, Cumberland.
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Pte. Christopher Edward Jones 2nd Btn. Border Regiment (d.26th Oct 1914) My Grandad's brother Christopher Edward Jones also served in the Great War but sadly was killed 26th October 1914. He was with the 2nd Btn Border Regiment. His wife Rosina and son are in the picture also grandmother (wife of Alfred) and his 2 children. Christopher Edward Jones is remembered at the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial.
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Pte. Ernest Albert Hahner 2nd Battalion Border Regiment (d.16th May 1915) Ernest Hahner was the fifth son of Prussian/German immigrants who lived in St Pancras. The family suffered extreme prejudice as the war progressed, despite the fact their mother, and each of their twelve children had been born in London. To demonstrate his loyalty to the country, Albert Hahner Snr applied for British Naturalisation. This was granted partly on the strength of the fact he had five sons serving overseas, three in the Army and two in the RAMC. The four older brothers all survived and returned to the UK, while Ernest was killed at The Battle of Festubert seven months after he enlisted, aged 18. He has no known grave but is commemorated at Le Touret Memorial at Richebourg, France
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A/Cpl. Jeremiah Todhunter 2nd Btn. Border Regiment Jeremiah Todhunter enlisted in the Border Regiment, at Carlisle on the 15th of September 1902 at the age of 19 years and 6 months.
During his time in the Army, he served abroad in India, from February 1904 to December 1904, and in South Africa, from December 1904 to September 1905.
As a member of the 2nd Battalion in World War One, he was deployed in France from the 25th of November 1914 to 19th of March 1915. During this time, he was wounded in action on the 12th of March 1915 during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle (10th - 13th of March 1915), and then transferred to the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion which remained in the United Kingdom.
He was was medically discharged on the 14th of September 1915. Despite this, later during the war, in 1917, he attempted to re-enlist, but was denied on medical grounds. Et servivit honeste.
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Cpl. Robert Morris 2nd Btn. Border Regiment (d.12th January 1915)  Robert Morris 2nd Border Regiment, son of the late John and Alice Morris, of Kendal, Westmorland, died on Tuesday 12th of January 1915 Age 27. He is remembered on the Ploegsteert Memorial.
He was near a machine gun in the trenches and an enemy sniper fired at the loophole of the gun. The bullet struck the ironwork, glanced inside the shield and hit him on the head, killing him instantly.
Excerpt from "The Border Regiment in The Great War" by H. C. Wylly:
2nd Battalion, 1915
The truce which had been mutually and unofficially established during Christmas 1914 between the British and the Germans endured, so far as concerned any operations on the front of the 2nd Battalion The Border Regiment, until the end of the first week of the New Year and then on the 8th January the troops fired volleys over the German trenches to indicate that fighting was about to recommence, while this somewhat broad hint was accompanied by a message to the same effect which was sent across. The usual sniping then recommenced, and both the Gordon Highlanders and The Border Regiment suffered some few casualties before the men could understand that it was no longer safe to walk about "on the top".
The weather continued to be deplorably wet and it was impossible to hold the whole line of trenches owing to the depth of water. Pivot posts were held at selected points in the trenches, the intervals occupied by retrenched posts at the back of the parados, manned only at night. Trench inspection was difficult, water in places being waist deep, while parapets were constantly falling in. Later in the month there was a frost and a fall of snow, but it thawed and it was wet and miserable. Gum boots were issued to the men on sentry and proved a great preventive of frost-bite. The german snipers continued busy, and the casualties in the Battalion, though few in number, were usually fatal, the men being for the most part hit in the head, for in those early days trench helmets were not yet issued.
On 7th February the Colonel went round the trenches, finding the water as deep as ever.
In his despatch of the 5th April the Field-Marshal commanding the British Army in France believed that a vigorous offensive should be made, the object being to attack and capture German positions of the village of Neuve Chapelle. The 2nd Battalion The Border Regiment was very actively engaged in this.
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Pte. George "Jordie" Caughey 2nd Btn. Border Regiment (d.16th May 1915) Remembered with Honour, George Caughey born in Eccles and resident of Oldham. He served with the 2nd Border Regiment and died on the 16th of May 1915. Remembered on the Le Touret Memorial
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Cpl. Walter Cyril Gutteridge 2nd Btn. Border Regiment (d.4th Oct 1917) Walter Gutteridge served with the 2nd Battalion, Border Regiment.
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Pte. Aquila Lund Slater 2nd Battalion Border Regiment (d.20th June 1917) Aquila Slater was born on 16th of March 1898. On enlisting his address was given as 20 Delta Street, Lightbowne, Manchester. His name is on the Arras memorial in France
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Capt. Adam Fulton 2nd Btn. Border Regiment Adam Fulton served with the 6th & 2nd Battalions, Border Regiment.
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John Edward Wormall 2nd Btn. Border Regiment Private Wormall was 25 when he died on the 13th March 1920 and is mentioned on a Special Memorial (South-West part) of the Templemore Churchyard, Templemore,Co. Tipperary, Ireland.
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Pte. Robert Douglas 2nd Btn. Borders Regiment (d.26th October 1914) Robert Douglas was the son of John and Ellen Douglas, brother of Helen (my great grandmother) and Alexander. The family lived in Annan.
He joined the Borders in 1906 in Carlisle. By 1914, he was living in Blaydon near Gateshead. He was unmarried but his sister and brother had also moved from Scotland to the north-east. He died three weeks after arriving in Belgium in the First Battle of Ypres. He was 31. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate in Ypres.
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Pte. Robert William McLaughlin 2nd Btn. Border Regiment (d.2nd Nov 1914) My grandmother, Annie McClellan, married Robert Mclaughlin in 1908 in Carlisle. They quickly had two children in two years and were living in Swansea in 1911 where Willie is recorded as a nickel worker.
The family came back to Carlisle and when war broke out in 1914, Willie quickly enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, Border Regiment. He was 29 years old (born July 1885.)
He died on 2nd of November 1914 and his name appears on the Menin Gate.
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Maj. Harry Francis Chadds MID, MC. 2nd Btn. Border Regiment Harry Chadds survived the war but was killed in a flying accident at Castlebar on 23rd of August 1920 and is buried in the Castlebar Church of Ireland, Co. Mayo, Ireland.
He was born on 30th October 1890 in the Curragh, Co. Kildare.
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L/Cpl. Vincent Livesey 2nd Btn. Border Regiment Vincent Livesey was the Son of John Thomas and Mary Livesey of 16 Collins Road, Bamber Bridge, Preston.
He was aged 19 when he died on 28th April 1920 and is buried in the lower part of the New Ground in the Castlebar Catholic Cemetery, Co.Mayo, Ireland.
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Pte. Thomas William O'Brien 2nd Battalion Border Regiment (d.26th Sep 1915) Thomas O'Brien is remembered on the Loos Memorial to the Missing.
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L/Cpl. George Harry Painter 2nd Btn., A Coy. Border Regiment (d.29th April 1916) George Painter served with 2nd Btn., Border Regiment, A company, grenade platoon.
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Pte. James England 2nd Btn. Border Regiment (d.23rd June 1916) James England of 15 Sherwood St, Newton died of his wounds on 23rd June 1916. He was the only child of Herbert and Frances England. A colliery banksboy at Tibshelf Colliery in 1911, he enlisted with the Royal Army Medical Corps on his 19th birthday on 20th February 1915 at Chesterfield. Having passed his nursing class in May 1915 he transferred to 3rd Battalion, Border Regiment and in January 1916 to the 2nd Battalion, disembarking in France that same month. He was serving with the 2nd when, on 19th June 1916, he received a gunshot wound to his chest from which he died four days later. His parents travelled to see his grave in 1920 on a pass from the Foreign Office.
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Pte. George Hetherington 2nd Btn. Border Regiment (d.30th Nov 1916) Goerge Hetherington was killed in action in France in 1916.
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Pte. Reginald Atkinson Bell 2nd Battalion Border Regiment (d.14th July 1916) Reginald Bell was the youngest son of William Bell a watchmaker and jeweler of Lancaster, Lancashire. He worked as a watch maker in his father's shop prior to joining the Border Regiment at Carlisle on 20 July 1915. He was married to Clara and they had a daughter also called Clara. They lived in Main Street in the village of Wray near Lancaster.
Reginald was 37 years old when he enlisted as a volunteer.
He went Over the Top with the 2nd Battalion on 1st July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme which he survived.
He went Over the Top for the second time in the early hours of 14th July 1916 at the Battle for Bazentin Ridge and was killed in action. His body was never found and he is commemorated on the Theipval Memorial.
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Pte. Harry Marriott 2nd Battalion, Machine Gun Section Border Regiment (d.25th September 1915) Died in heavy fighting during at Loos.
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