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6th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment
The 6th (Service) Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment was raised at Preston in August 1914 as part of Kitchener's First New Army and joined 38th Brigade, 13th (Western) Division and trained at Lucknow Barracks, Tidworth spending the winter in billets at Winchester.
Near the end of February the Division concentrated at Blackdown in Hampshire, with the 6th East Lancashires at Alma Barracks. They sailed from Avonmouth on the 16th of June 1915 landing at Alexandria then moving to Mudros, by the 4th of July to prepare for a landing at Gallipoli. The infantry landed on Cape Helles between the 6th and 16th of July to relieve 29th Division. They returned to Mudros at the end of the month, and the entire Division landed at ANZAC Cove between the 3rd and 5th of August. They were in action in The Battle of Sari Bair, The Battle of Russell's Top and The Battle of Hill 60, at ANZAC. Soon afterwards they transferred from ANZAC to Suvla Bay. They were evacuated from Suvla on the 19th and 20th of December 1915, and after a weeks rest they moved to the Helles bridgehead. They were in action during The last Turkishh attacks at Helles on the 7th of January 1916 and were evacuated from Helles on the 8th and 9th. The Division concentrated at Port Said, holding forward posts in the Suez Canal defences. On the 12th of February 1916 they moved to Mesopotamia, to join the force being assembled near Sheikh Sa'ad for the relief of the besieged garrison at Kut al Amara. They joined the Tigris Corps on the 27th of March and were in action in the unsucessful attempts to relieve Kut. They were in action in The Battle of Kut al Amara, The capture of the Hai Salient, he capture of Dahra Bend and The passage of the Diyala, in the pursuit of the enemy towards Baghdad. Units of the Division were the first troops to enter Baghdad, when it fell on the 11 March 1917. The Division then joined \"Marshall's Column\" and pushed north across Iraq, fighting at Delli 'Abbas, Duqma, Nahr Kalis, crossing the 'Adhaim on the 18 April and fighting at Shatt al 'Adhaim. Later in the year they were in action in the Second and Third Actions of Jabal Hamrin and fought at Tuz Khurmatli the following April. By the 28th of May 1918, Divisional HQ had moved to Dawalib and remained there until the end of the war, enduring extreme summer temperatures.
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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Those known to have served with6th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Adkin William. Pte. (d.6th Aug 1915)
- Allen Tom. Pte. (d.8th Feb 1917)
- Alston Thomas. Pte. (d.9th Aug 1915)
- Anderton William James. Pte. (d.9th Aug 1915)
- Astin George Henry. Pte. (d.14th Jan 1917.)
- Astin George Henry. Pte. (d.14th Jan 1917)
- Bailey John Robinson. Pte. (d.8th Apr 1916)
- Bailey John Robertson. Pte. (d.8th Apr 1916)
- Barnes John Richard. Pte. (d.9th Apr 1916)
- Bellis Henry. Pte. (d.20th Apr 1916)
- Billing Frederick. Pte. (d.9th August 1915)
- Blakey John. Pte. (d.30th Apr 1917)
- Blakey John. Pte. (d.30th April 1917)
- Bowditch John. Pte. (d.9th Apr 1916)
- Bowditch John. Pte. (d.9th April 1916)
- Bowes Edward Whittaker. Pte. (d.7th April 1917)
- Bowes Edward Whittaker. Pte. (d.7th April 1917)
- Bridge William James. Pte. (d.30th Apr 1917)
- Bridge William James. Pte. (d.30th April 1917)
- Brierley Fred. Pte.
- Brightmore Sydney. Pte. (d.30th Apr 1917)
- Brightmore Sydney. Pte. (d.30th Apr 1917)
- Burke John. Pte. (d.26th Aug 1915)
- Burke John. Pte. (d.26th Aug 1915)
- Burrows James. Pte. (d.11th Aug 1915)
- Burrows John Thomas. Sgt. (d.9th Apr 1916)
- Burrows John Thomas. Sgt. (d.9th April 1916)
- Byott William John. L/Cpl. (d.20th Aug 1915)
- Byrne Dennis Cyril. Pte. (d.19th Apr 1916)
- Byrne Dennis Cyril. Pte. (d.19th April 1916)
- Calverley Joseph. L/Cpl. (d.9th Apr 1916)
- Calverley Joseph. L/Cpl. (d.9th April 1916)
- Calvert Guy. Pte. (d.25th April 1916)
- Calvert Guy. Pte. (d.25th April 1916)
- Chapples Robert Hey. Sgt. (d.9th Apr 1916)
- Chapples Robert Hey. Sgt. (d.9th April 1916)
- Clark George Edwin. Sgt. (d.9th Aug 1915)
- Clarke Francis George. Pte. (d.21st July 1915)
- Collinge Arthur. Pte. (d.26th Feb 1917)
- Cooper George. Pte. (d.30th Apr 1917)
- Cross Richard Alexander. Pte (d.18th Apr 1917)
- Dewhurst William James. Pte. (d.2nd Jan 1918)
- Duncan David James White. Pte. (d.9th March 1917)
- Duncan David James White. Pte. (d.9th Mar 1917)
- Durrant Oliver Torlesse. 2nd Lt.
- Duxberry William. Pte. (d.5th Jul 1918.)
- Duxberry William. Pte. (d.5th July 1918)
- Emmett Robert. Pte. (d.13th Aug 1915)
- Emmett Robert. Pte. (d.13th Aug 1915)
- Flynn William. Pte. (d.7th Nov 1915)
- Fyles William Henry. Pte. (d.16th July 1917)
- Giddins Harry. Pte. (d.9th Apr 1916)
- Goldstone John. Pte. (d.31st Dec 1916)
- Grundy Harry. Pte. (d.19th Aug 1915)
- Grundy Harry. Pte. (d.19th Aug 1915)
- Hall Albert. Pte. (d.19th February 1916)
- Hall Albert. Pte. (d.19th Feb 1916)
- Hargreaves Tom. Pte. (d.27th Feb 1917)
- Harrison George. Pte. (d.5th Apr 1916)
- Harrison George. Pte. (d.5th Apr 1916)
- Hartley Ernest. Pte. (d.25th Feb 1917)
- Hartley Hiram. Pte. (d.9th Apr 1916)
- Haworth Fred. Sgt. (d.15th June 1916)
- Holden Herbert. Pte. (d.18th April 1917)
- Hopkinson William. Sgt. (d.12th July 1915)
- Hudson Henry James. Pte. (d.10th Aug 1915)
- Hudson Henry James. Pte. (d.10th Aug 1915)
- Hugman William Ernest Nicholas. Pte (d.18th Apr 1917)
- Little Fred. Pte. (d.6th Jan 1917)
- Lowden Stephen. Pte. (d.9th Aug 1915)
- Lumley George. Pte. (d.9th Aug 1915)
- Lunney Bartholomew.
- Marshall DCM James. Sgt.
- Mart George Hulbert Victor.
- Massey Henry. Pte. (d.6th Feb 1917)
- Mcquirk Richard. Pvte (d.4th November 1915)
- Mercer Thomas. Pte. (d.11th Apr 1916)
- Morrison Hugh. Pte. (d.25th Mar 1918)
- Renwick Alfonso. Pte. (d.26th Feb 1917)
- Ridge Fred. Cpl. (d.9th Aug 1915)
- Salter H.. Pte. (d.11th Dec 1915)
- Shaw George. Pte. (d.26th Apr 1916)
- Smith George. Pte. (d.9th Aug 1915)
- Smith John William. Pte. (d.9th Apr 1916)
- Smith John William. Pte. (d.9th Apr 1916)
- Turner Arthur . Pte. (d.29th Nov 1915)
- Tyson Edward. Pte.
- Whiteside William. Pte.
- Wilkinson Herbert. Pte. (d.5th Apr 1916)
- Woods Robert William . Pte.
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Pte. Harry Grundy 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment (d.19th Aug 1915) Harry Grundy died of wounds on 19th August 1915, aged 21 and is buried in Pieta Military Cemetery in Malta.
He lived at 6 Walnut Street, Burnley, Lancashire.
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Pte. Herbert Holden 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment (d.18th April 1917) Herbert Holden was killed in action 18th April 1917, he is remembered on the Basra War Memorial in Iraq.
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Sgt. Fred Haworth 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment (d.15th June 1916) Fred Haworth drowned on the 15th of June 1916 aged 21, he is remembered on the Basra War Memorial in Iraq.
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Pte. Albert Hall 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment (d.19th February 1916) Albert Hall was killed in action on the 19th of February 1916 and is commemorated on the Basra War Memorial in Iraq.
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Pte. Guy Calvert 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment (d.25th April 1916) Guy Calvert was killed in action on the 25th of April 1916 and is commemorated on the Basra War Memorial in Iraq.
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Bartholomew Lunney 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment Bartholomew Lunney was my Great Grandfather.
I became aware of his service in the 6th East Lancashire Regiment whilst doing some research into my mother's family tree.
I understand the Battalion was stationed in Gallipoli and Mesopotamia in 1915-1916.
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Pte. Robert William Woods 6th Battalion East Lancashire Regiment Robert Woods was my grandfather. He enlisted in the 6th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment at Preston on 7th of November 1914 stating his age as 19 although his real age was just 17. He fought with the battalion at Gallipoli where he was wounded and invalided out to Mudros and later back to home. He then saw active service on the Western Front with the 1st Battalion where he was subsequently wounded again in April 1918. He was awarded the Victory Medal and the 1915 Star.
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2nd Lt. Oliver Torlesse Durrant 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment  Oliver Durrant was my father. Immediately before the Great War, at the age of 18, he went out to work on a family rubber plantation in Ceylon. As soon as war was declared, he returned to England where he enlisted in the East Lancashire Regiment. He was fairly soon commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant. He served with the 6th East Lancs on Gallipoli and in Mesopotamia (Iraq). While there he became very ill with typhoid fever and was invalided out to Ceylon. On his return to Mesopotamia he was, for some reason, seconded to an Indian regiment the 130th Baluchis. At the end of the war he transferred permanently to the Indian Army with whom he served for the next 27 years, mostly on the North-West Frontier in what is now Pakistan. He retired with the rank of Colonel in 1946 and our family moved to Kenya, where I grew up. He died in Nairobi in 1978 at the age of 81.
He hardly ever spoke about his war service and, to my everlasting regret, I never really asked him much about it. The only story I remember him telling of his time on Gallipoli was when he went down to one of the jetties on the beach from where they could see the Royal Navy warships shelling Turkish positions. My Dad asked the rating if he knew which particular battleship that was currently just off the coast. He replied that it was HMS Canopus. My father asked if anyone ever come ashore from it. Occasionally, the rating replied, and in fact, as they watched, a picket boat came in to the jetty under the command of a Midshipman. That officer was my Dad's younger brother Humphrey, with whom he was very close (they were only 2 years apart). It was the last time they ever met. Canopus returned to the UK where she was decommissioned (she was quite an old battleship) and Humphrey in early May 1916 transferred to the pride of the Fleet, the new battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary. He lost his life when she was blown up 3 weeks later at the Battle of Jutland.
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Pte. Francis George Clarke 6th Battalion East Lancashire Regiment (d.21st July 1915) Francis Clarke was born in Burnley in 1892. He was married to Martha nee Shannon with 2 children.
He was a drawer in the local coal mine in Burnley. He is buried in Redoubt Cemetery, Helles.
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L/Cpl. William John Byott 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment (d.20th Aug 1915) William John Byott was the son of George James and Eliza Byott.
He is buried in Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery.
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Sgt. George Edwin Clark 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment (d.9th Aug 1915) George Clark was the husband of Lily Clark, of 5, Banner Street, Wavertree, Liverpool. He is remembered on the Helles Memorial.
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Pte. Harry Grundy 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment (d.19th Aug 1915) Harry Grundy died of wounds aged 21 and is buried in the Pieta Military Cemetery in Malta.
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Pte. Robert Emmett 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment (d.13th Aug 1915) Robert Emmett died of wounds aged 33 and is buried in Pieta Military Cemetery in Malta.
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Pte. Edward Whittaker Bowes 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment (d.7th April 1917) Edward Bowes died of wounds on 7th April 1917, aged 21 and is buried in in the Basra War Cemetery in Iraq.
He lived at 1 Lubbock Street, Burnley, Lancashire.
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Pte. William Henry Fyles 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment (d.16th July 1917) William Fyles died on 16th July 1917 of heatstroke, aged 33 and is buried in the Baghdad North Gate Cemetery, Iraq.
He lived at 55 Spencer Street, Burnley, Lancashire.
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Pte. William James Dewhurst 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment (d.2nd Jan 1918) William Dewhurst died on 2nd January 1918, aged 24. He is buried in the Baghdad North Gate Cemetery, Iraq.
He was the husband of Caroline Agnes Dewhurst of 62 Lowerhouse Lane, Rose Grove, Burnley.
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Pte. William Duxberry 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment (d.5th July 1918) William Duxberry died 5th July 1918 and is buried i in the Bangalore (Hosur Road) Cemetery, India. He was the husband of Sarah Ellen Duxberry of 13 Clay St., Burnley, Lancashire.
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Pte. Fred Brierley 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment Fred Brierley served with the 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
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Pte. Henry James Hudson 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment (d.10th Aug 1915) Henry Hudson died of wounds on 10th August 1915, aged 30. He is buried in the East Mudros Military Cemetery, Island of Lemnos, Greece.
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Pte. John Burke 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment (d.26th Aug 1915) John Burke died on the 26th of August 1915 age 35 and is buried in the Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Alexandria, Egypt.
He was the son of Patrick and Mary Burke. Born at Burnley. He formerly lived at 3 Shaw Street, later in South Africa.
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