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4th Battalion, Border Regiment
4th Battalion Border Regiment were a unit of the Territorial Force. C Coy were based at The Volunteer Assembly Rooms, Southey Street, Keswick.
4th (Cumberland and Westmoreland) Battalion, The Border Regiment were based in Carlisle when war broke out in August 1914 attached to the East Lancashire Division.They moved to Barrow and then in
September 1914 they moved to Sittingbourne and transferred to Middlesex Brigade in Home Counties Division. On the 29th September 1914 they sailed from Southampton for India. The Division was broken up on arrival and remained in India throughout the war. On arrival they were attached to Burma Division and moved to Rangoon in early December 1914. In February 1918 they transferred to Jubbulpore Brigade in 5th (Mhow) Division.
The HQ of the 4th Battalion Border Regiment was at Strand Road, Carlisle. When war broke out in 1914 they were part of the East Lancashire Division. A and B Companies were based in Carlise, C Coy from Keswick and Brampton, D Coy in Penrith, E coy was from Kirkby Lonsdale, Sedbergh, Endmoor and Milnthorpe, Kirkby Stephen and Appleby. F Coy was based in Kendle, G Coy from Kendal, Burneside and Staveley. H coy from Windermere, Ambleside adn Elterwater. There was also a cadet company at Kirkby Lonsdale.
16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme
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
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James Haughan Machine Gun Corps My grand father, James Haughan (Born 1897) enlisted from 3 Hobart Terrace, Moorville, Carlisle in Jan 1916. The house is now 16 Kingstown Road.
He was a fireman on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway when enlisted.
He signed up to 4th Border Regiment at 18 years, 5 months as a railway fireman on 18th Jan 1916. He transferred to the Machine Gun Corps.
He was demobbed in Oct 1919 to 9 Summerfield Street, Glasgow. He missed out on his gold watch for long service to the railway because he volunteered, had he been conscripted, he would have got it!
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2nd Lt. Cuthbert Turner 7th Battalion Border Regiment (d.23rd April 1917) 2nd Lieutenant Cuthbert Turner served with a Territorial unit, the 4th (Westmorland and Cumberland) Battalion, Border Regiment.
He was the son of Cuthbert Turner and Mary Turner (nee Woodman) of Derwenthaugh, Swalwell, Co. Durham.
At the time of his death, he was attached to the 7th Battalion, Border Regiment in 51st Brigade, 17th (Northern) Division, one of the 'New Army' battalions. Second Lt Turner was killed in action in the 2nd Battle of the Scarpe on the 23rd April 1917, aged 23.
He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
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