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5th Battalion, Border Regiment    5th (Cumberland) Battalion, The Border Regiment was based in Carlisle in August 1914, they were attached to the East Lancashire Division and trained in Barrow. They proceeded to France on the 26th of October 1914 landing at Le Havre. On the 5th of May 1915 they joined 149th Brigade, 50th (Northumbrian) Division and on 20 December 1915 they transferred to 151st Brigade also in 50th Division. They saw action in the Second Battle of Ypres, on The Somme, the Battle of Arras and the Third Battle of Ypres. On the 12th of February 1918 the Battalion transferred to as Pioneer Battalion to 66th (2nd East Lancashire) Division and were in action on the Somme. On the 7th of May 1918 they transferred to 97th Brigade in 32nd Division and absorbed a cadre of the Border regiment's 11th (Lonsdale) Battalion and were in action during the Battle of the Hindenburgh Line and during the final advance in Picardy.    The 5th (Cumberland) Battalion, Border Regiment had their HQ at Workington. A company was based in Whitehaven, B and C Coys at Workington, D Coy at Cockermouth, E Coy was from Egremeont, St Bees and Cleator, F Coy at Wigton, G Coy at Frizington and H Coy was from Aspatria, Dearham and Bulgill. 19th of April 1915 Establishing HQs 22nd of April 1915 Germans Attack 22nd of April 1915 Standing by 23rd of April 1915 Under attack 23rd of April 1915 Northunberlands Transferred 23rd of April 1915 Concentration 23rd of April 1915 Divisional Movements 23rd of April 1915 Delays 23rd of April 1915 Urgent Moves 23rd of April 1915 Brigade to 5th Corps 4th of May 1915 Borders join Brigade 5th May 1915 Reorganisation 5th May 1915 Reorganisation  149 Brigade HQ report from near Watou: "2.30pm. 5th Bn Border Regt reported their arrival and were taken on the strength of the Brigade." 149th Brigade war diary 7th of May 1915 Reconnaissance 7th May 1915 Ready to Move 7th May 1915 Ready to Move  At 8.30am Orders received from the Northumbrian Division that 149th Brigade is to hold itself in readiness to move at two hours notice. At 9am Units informed and instructions issued to the points that the several Battalions are to assemble on receipt of order to move. 149th Brigade war diary 8th May 1915 In Bivouac 8th May 1915 In Bivouac  149th Brigade remained in bivouac in Near Watou. 149th Brigade war diary 9th May 1915 Orders 9th May 1915 Orders   9th May 1915 Ordered to Move  At 10.30pm Orders recieved for 149th Brigade to move by omnibus to the neighbourhood of Brandhoek. At 11pm Orders issued to units in accordance with above. 149th Brigade war diary 10th May 1915 On the Move 10th May 1915 On the Move  At 7:30am. 149 Brigade H.Q. 5th and 6th Battalions Northumberland Fusiliers left billets near Watou in 73 omnibuses. At 9am. 149 Brigade H.Q. 5th and 6th Battalions Northumberland Fusiliers arrived at cross roads in G5d and marched to bivouac in wood A30a. Day very hot and dusty. Transport did not all get in until 16:30. Was very bad. 149th Brigade war diary 11th May 1915 In Bivouac   12th May 1915 Orders   12th May 1915 Operation Order No. 12   13th May 1915 On the Move   14th May 1915 Instruction 14th May 1915 Orders 15th May 1915 Orders 15th May 1915 Orders  At 12.35 pm Orders received by 149th Inf Brigade from 10th Inf Brigade for the remaining company of the 5th Border Regiment to proceed to Royal Irish Fusiliers Transport at B26c and report at 6pm. At 12.45pm Orders issued in accordance with above. The company left their huts at 4.30pm. At 3pm Orders received for the 4th and 5th Battalions Northumberland Fusiliers to move from huts they are at present occupying to bivouac in H2g - HQ to Hopital Farm. At 3.45pm Orders issued in accordance with above and 4th Batt. moved off at 4.55 followed by 5th Btn and arrived in bivouac at 6pm. At 3.50pm Orders received for two working parties of 200 men each to be furnished by the brigade to parade at 8pm at the entrance to Vlamertinghe Chateau. At 4pm 4th and 5th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers were ordered to find these parties. 149th Brigade war diary 20th of May 1915 Troop Distribution 26th May 1915 In the Trenches 27th May 1915 Orders 28th May 1915 Instruction 29th May 1915 Instruction 30th May 1915 Instruction 31st of May 1915 Report 2nd of June 1915  3rd Jun 1915 Training   12th Jun 1915    12th of June 1915 Order of Battalions 14th Jun 1915 7th Northumberlands in action 14th Jun 1915 7th Northumberlands in the Trenches 15th Jun 1915 Enemy shelling 16th Jun 1915 Heavy Bombardment 16th of June 1915 Attack underway   16th of June 1915 Attack continues 1st Aug 1915 Reliefs Completed 13th Aug 1915 Reliefs Complete 17th of Aug 1915  31st Aug 1915 Reliefs Complete 6th Sep 1915 Reliefs Completed 24th September 1915 Orders   24th September 1915 Programme 25th September 1915 Wind 25th September 1915  25th September 1915 Patrols 25th September 1915 Orders   26th September 1915 Patrols 27th September 1915 Patrols 16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme 25th October 1915 Orders   26th of October 1915 Moves 26th October 1915 Orders   1st November 1915 Warnings 2nd November 1915 Ammunition Allotment 3rd of November 1915  4th November 1915 Training Programme 7th November 1915 Orders Issued 7th November 1915 Reliefs 12th November 1915 On the Move 13th November 1915 Training Programme 1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets 11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment 11th December 1915 Orders 13th December 1915 Orders   13th December 1915 Order   13st December 1915 Orders   13th December 1915 Reliefs   13th December 1915 Orders   15th December 1915 Advance Parties 23rd Dec 1915 Reliefs 27th Dec 1915 Reliefs 31st Dec 1915 Reliefs 11th May 1915 In Bivouac  149th Brigade are in Bivouac in A.30A. 149th Brigade war diary 4th Jan 1916 Reliefs Completed 9th Jan 1916 Reliefs   10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens 13th Jan 1916 Reliefs   16th January 1916 Visit 16th January 1916 Reorganisation   17th Jan 1916 Artillery Bombardment   21st Jan 1916 Reliefs   25th Jan 1916 Reliefs   27th January 1916 Snipers, Sausages and Whizz-bangs   28th January 1916 Quiet   29th Jan 1916 Reliefs 29th of January 1916 Machine Gun Emplacements   29th January 1916 Machine Guns   30th January 1916 Snipers   31st January 1916 Enemy Lines   1st February 1916 Enemy Aircraft   2nd Feb 1916 Reliefs   2nd February 1916 Exchange of Fire   2nd February 1916 Aeroplane Photographs   4th February 1916 Reliefs   4th February 1916 Enemy Guns 4th February 1916 Enemy Artillery   5th February 1916 Shelling 5th February 1916 Shelling   5th February 1916 Snipers 5th February 1916 Uniforms 6th Feb 1916 Reliefs 6th Feb 1916 Reorganisation 6th February 1916 Orders   7th February 1916 Shelling   7th February 1916 Artillery Active   9th February 1916 Orders   9th of February 1916 Orders 9th February 1916 Artillery Active   9th February 1916 Call Ups 10th Feb 1916 Artillery In Action   11th February 1916 Warning 11th February 1916 Enemy Active   12th February 1916 Gas Alert   12th February 1916 Quieter   14th February 1916 Bomardment   15th February 1916 Orders   18th of February 1916 Reliefs Complete   18th of February 1916 Less Shelling   18th Feb 1916 Reliefs 19th of February 1916 Reorganisation 21st February 1916 Snow 22nd Feb 1916 Reliefs Completed   22nd February 1916 Gas 22nd of February 1916 Machine Guns   23rd February 1916 Warning 25th February 1916 Dangerous Wind 26th Feb 1916 Under Shellfire   26th February 1916 Hostile Artillery   28th February 1916 Dummys 28th February 1916 Orders   29th February 1916 Report 29th February 1916 Orders   29th February 1916 Orders   1st March 1916 Orders   1st of March 1916 Bombardment   2nd March 1916 Orders 6th of March 1916 Orders   7th of March 1916 Orders   7th of March 1916 Orders 8th of March 1916 Mining   10th of March 1916 Reliefs Completed   10th of March 1916 Orders   10th of March 1916 Orders   16th of March 1916 Orders   18th of March 1916 Orders   20th of March 1916 Orders   23rd Mar 1916 Reliefs Completed   23rd of March 1916 Reliefs   31st of March 1916 Orders   3rd of April 1916 Orders   20th of April 1916 Orders   22nd of April 1916 Gas   28th of April 1916 Inspection 30th of April 1916 Stand To 30th of April 1916 At Rest   1st of May 1916 Orders 7th May 1916 Church Parade 14th of May 1916 Training & Sport 15th May 1916 Brigade Cross Country Run 16th May 1916 Parade 18th of May 1916 Orders 19th May 1916 19th - 26th May 1916. 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Want to know more about 5th Battalion, Border Regiment? There are:5567 items tagged 5th Battalion, Border Regiment 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 5th Battalion, Border Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. Coulthaite James. 2nd Lt. (d.5th Aug 1917) Elliott Marshall. Pte. (d.26th March 1918) Excelby Albert Hugill. Pte Fell Henry. Pte. Finch William. Harrison John. Pte. (d.27th Apr 1918) Hebson Joseph Wilson. Pte. (d.23rd March 1918) Holmes William. Pte. (d.16th September 1916) Madine William. Pte. (d.23rd April 1917) Neen Thomas. Pte. (d.27th July 1916) Nylands Michael. Pte. (d.6th Nov 1918) Rook Morton. Pte. Rumney John. A/Sjt. Whittaker MM. John. Pte. Yeowart William Nixon. Sgt. 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Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. 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. 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.   Pte. Henry Fell 1st Btn. Border Regiment Henry Fell was a Territorial in the 5th Battalion when war broke out. He went to France in late 1914 but did see combat until May of 1915. He witnessed his brother John get shot in the abdomen while bringing water for the troops in Ypres. He was in the line when the Germans used poison gas for the second time at the battle of Battle of Bellewaarde were the battalion took over 300 casualties. Between this date and the 1st of July 1916, he was transferred to the 1st Border Battalion. I know this because he did an interview for a book written by Melvyn Bragg in the 70's called Speak for England, where he takes about being there on the 1st of July. The 5th Border Regiment did not enter the Somme battlefield till much later. From there he was at all the major engagements that the 1st Battalion took part in. In the interview he mentions Passchendaele and Cambrai. He was never badly wounded, I know that he suffered from shell shock after the first day on the Somme. He also took a bullet through an ear which grazed the back of his head in 1917. He survived the war and lived to the grand age of 92 passing away in 1985. Luckily, I have a number of resources that feature Henry. The first, the above-mentioned book, where he and his brother W.S Fell MM with 2 bars are interviewed. Also, he has many mentions and published letters in the Wigton Advertiser. The research continues. Add to this record.   Pte. William Holmes 5th Btn. Border Regiment (d.16th September 1916) Born in 1896 William Holmes was the youngest of 9 children. His parents were Robert and Sarah Holmes. His father owned a flour mill in Abbeytown near Carlisle. William joined the 5th Battalion, Border Regiment when he was 18 in 1914. He was badly injured during the offensive at Flers-Courcelette on the Somme on 15th of September 1916. The following day he died of his wounds at Puchevillers Casualty Clearing Station. He was aged 20 when he died. William is buried at Puchevillers British Military Cemetery grave. Alex Holmes Add to this record.   A/Sjt. John Rumney 5th Btn Border Regiment John Rumney signed up to the 5th Battalion Border Regiment on 12th of September 1914, two days ahead of his two younger brothers, Joseph and Fred. John was promoted to Acting Sergeant on 16th of May 1916. He was poisoned by gas on 24th of May 1915 and taken via No 2 Casualty Clearing Station at Bailleul, and then on to Le Touquet Field hospital, and finally evacuated to Brighton on 28th May. He was transferred to a reserve regiment on 25th of July 1916, and was recalled to the 4th Battalion Border Regiment on 22nd of June 1917. He was finally discharged 14th of September 1918. Graeme Rumney Add to this record.   2nd Lt. James Coulthaite 5th (Service) Battalion Border Regiment (d.5th Aug 1917) James Coulthwaite was the son of John Coulthwaite of Waterside, Middleton, by his wife Mary daughter of Thomas Wilson. James was born in Middleton nr Kirkby Londsdale on the 29th of April 1896 and was educated at Haversham School, Milnthorpe. He was captain of the football & cricket teams at school. He took School Exhibitions for Queen's College, Oxford, he was hoping eventually to take Holy Orders and joined the Inns of Court O T C in Jan 1916. He obtained a commission on the 1st of March 1917, served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders as a 2nd Lieut with the 5th Border Regiment. He was was killed in action on 5th of August 1917 while on patrol duty. Buried in Mory Abbey Cemetery, north of Bapaume. James Coulthwaite is recorded on a memorial plaque at the Church of the Holy Ghost, Middleton. Colin Sagar Add to this record.   Pte. John Whittaker MM. 5th Battalion Border Regiment Jack Whittaker was my great uncle. He joined the army in 1915 under the Lord Derby scheme. He won the military medal for valour when he captured a German machine gun trench. Eric Wilde Add to this record.   Pte. Joseph Wilson Hebson 5th Btn. Border Regiment (d.23rd March 1918) Joseph Hebson worked as a porter and signalman at Threlkeld Station on the CKPR. He was killed on the Somme in 1918 and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial and on the CKPR tablet on the south side of the war memorial in Keswick. Pete Armstrong Add to this record.   Pte Albert Hugill Excelby 5th Btn. Border Regiment Albert Hugill Exelby, was one of four sons of George Exelby and Elizabeth Hurworth who served in the Great War: William (b 26/3/1894), George junior (31/3/1895), Joseph (20/4/1896) and Albert (22/5/1897). They also had two daughters, Mary (b 16/4/1899) and Jane (b 26/3/1901 Albert joined the Territorials on 1st April, 1914 giving his age as 17 years, though he was only 16. His medical examination records him as 5 foot 10 and a half with a 36" chest, good physical development and good vision. He spent two years in the 4th Yorkshire (Reserve) Battalion, before being transferred to the 3rd Border Regiment on 4th July, 1916, and was sent to France on 12th July. Two days later he was transferred to the 5th Battalion. On 19th September 1916, Albert received a gunshot wound to his left arm and was sent back to England, Albert was for a time a patient in the VAD hospital in Stokesley Manor House. He returned to his unit in France in December and was wounded on three further occasions, April 1917, October 1917 and May, 1918. He was officially demobed in February 1919, aged 21 and received an enhancement of 20% to his pension due to disability caused by a gunshot wound to the left thigh giving him a pension of 8 shillings and threepence per week. Albert married Eliza Hindmarsh, nee Green in August 1922. Eliza had two daughters from a previous marriage and she and Albert had two more: Beatrice in 1923 and Margaret in 1929. Albert Exelby died in Middlesbrough in 1950. Angela Add to this record.   Sgt. William Nixon Yeowart 5th Btn. Border Regiment (Cumberland) According to British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920, William Nixon Yeowart (born 28 May 1893) was an 'Apprentice Fitter' from Whitehaven, he joined 5th Battalion Cumberland Border Regiment in 1910 and was at Barrow Camp in the summers of 1910 and 1913 and at Dolphinhome Camp in the summer of 1911. He was appointed Lance Corporal in July 1912, promoted to Corporal in January 1913 and then to Machine Gun Sergeant in August 1914. He served at home between 5 August and 24th of October 1914 before embarking from Southampton to France (Havre) on 25th of October 1914. In June 1915 he was hospitalised before returning home on 3rd of August 1915. He was discharged in consequence of the expiration of the terms of engagement (six years), in Barrow-in-Furness on 19th of April 1916. His military character was described as 'exemplary' and the following was said about him: 'Honest, sober, entirely trustworthy, industrious, clear and intelligent. Was machine gun sergeant whilst serving with BEF France and did excellent work. He has tact, discretion and an excellent follower of command'. William was my second cousin twice removed. He died in Canada in 1990. Robin Moore Add to this record.   Pte. Morton Rook 5th Btn. Border Regiment Morton Rook sailed for France on 25th October 1914. He served in France and Flanders - Ypres, Somme, Arras and Passchendaele. He was wounded in 1917 we believe in Arras or Passchendaele. His wounds were severe with shrapnel injuries to both legs. He was invalided out and sent to a convalescent house in Cumbria. Morton eventually recovered and moved to Canada in 1930, married and started a family. His personal records were destroyed in WW2 bombings over London. He lied about his age (he took 10 years off) and enlisted in the war effort once again, this time to serve in WW2 with the Royal Canadian Engineers. Morton rarely talked about WW1 and only did so when asked. However, he did say that at times they had to search garbage for food. Brent Rook Add to this record.   Pte. Thomas Neen 5th Btn. Border Regiment (d.27th July 1916) Thomas Neen is buried at Dranoutre Cemetery in Belgium. He was the son of William Marshall Neen and Janet Neen, of 21, Curwin St., Harrington, Cumberland. My father, Robert Henry knew Thomas' Father as Billy who was his uncle I think? Chris Neen Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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