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8th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers
8th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers were a unit of the Territorial Force with their HQ at Cross Lane, Salford. They were part of the Lancashire Fusiliers Infantry Brigade, East Lancashire Division. When war broke out in August 1914 they were mobilized for war and were amongst the first territorials to proceed overseas leaving from Southampton, arriving in Egypt on the 25th of September 1914. The Division underwent training around Cairo and defended the Suez Canal against the Turkishh attack in February. In May
the Division became 125th Brigade, 42nd (East Lancashire) Division and went on to land at Cape Helles in Gallipoli and took part in the action capture the dominating heights around the village of Krithia. By August, the division had lost about 2/3rd of it's men through battle casualties, injuries or sickness and reinforcements arrived. The Battalion made a successful withdrawal from the Helles bridgehead and on the 28th of December 1915 landed on Mudros and then returned to Egypt.
On the 27th of February 1917 they landed Marseilles and proceeded to the Western Front. They were re-equipped for trench warfare and entered the line at Epehy, as part of III Corps in Fourth Army. In September they moved north to Flanders and were in action at the Battle of Passechendaele for a short time before moving to the coast at Nieuport. In November they moved to Givenchy where they undertook the construction of concrete defence works. In 1918 they were in action on The Somme, in the Battles of the Hindenburg Line and the Final Advance in Picardy. The Battalion was demobilized at Charleroi between December 18 and March 1919.
15th Mar 1915 15th Geneal Hospital to camp
7th May 1915 In Action
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
14th July 1916 Reinforcements August 1916.
19th July 1916 G.R.15/8 received
20th July 1916 B.M.2008
7th Sep 1917 Reliefs
14th Sep 1917 Reliefs 
20th Oct 1917 Advance Party
21st Oct 1917 Reliefs
5th Nov 1917 Reliefs
18th Aug 1918 Recce
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Those known to have served with8th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers during the Great War 1914-1918. - Cowell William Porter. Pte. (d.24th Oct 1918)
- Crowe Lawrence. Pte. (d.13th Oct 1918)
- Foulkes Walter Joseph. Dvr.
- Jennings MM. James. Pte. (d.6th September 1917)
- Kirk George Thomas. Pte. (d.23rd Oct 1918)
- Kirk George Thomas. Pte. (d.23rd October 1918)
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Pte. George Thomas Kirk 1/8th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (d.23rd October 1918) George Kirk is buried in Quievy Communal Cemetry Extension along side 4 of his Battalion comrades. We are still researching his story.
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Pte. James Jennings MM. 125th Battery Machine Gun Corps (d.6th September 1917)  James Jennings was formerly with the 8th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. His Territorial Force Attestation papers survive. Prior to this he was a Machine Tool Fitter with Charles Churchill Company, Manchester.
James was born 10th of September 1895. The youngest son and 6th of 7 children to James and Martha Jennings,(nee Wroe) of 28 Ventnor St Pendleton. In 1911 James was living at 68 Nora St, Lower Broughton with his widowed mother and older brother Thomas, age 21. His sister Edith (25) is married, Bertha (23) is single, as is Florence (18). Two of his sisters, Elizabeth and Lily died as children.
Thomas later received James' personal effects and Military Medal.
Thomas was present at the Third Battle of Ypres. There was heavy fighting at Borry Farm and James was wounded on 1st of September 1917. He was taken from the action by Field Ambulance and rejoined his Company on the 5th. He did not survive his next battle and died at Borry Form on 6th of September 1917, or soon after. His Memorial in Salford denotes him as Wounded and Missing.
He is remembered at the Tyne Cot Memorial near Zonnebeke in Belgium. James was also awarded the 1914 - 1915 Star, British War Medal and Wounded Stripe.
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Pte. George Thomas Kirk 8th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers (d.23rd Oct 1918) George Kirk was my great uncle. We know very little about him although I have recently been in touch with Qube who are carrying out some research on the men named on the park gates in Oswestry.
I have some paperwork sent from the War Office, including telegrams advising that he was missing and another confirming his death. I also have the death penny and scroll and a photograph and a painting. There are very few of us left now and nobody to ask for information.
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Dvr. Walter Joseph Foulkes 8th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers Walter was born 16 Aug 1894 in Eccles as Walter Foulkes, son of Charles Edward Foulkes and Mary Jane Bennett. He grew up using the surname of his stepfather John Nolan, but enlisted as Walter Nolan in the 8th Lancashire Fusiliers in Salford, in June 1913. He tTransferred to the Machine Gun Corps, 125th Coy in 1916. He was demobilized in March 1919. He lived on as Walter Foulkes, but in his contacts with the Army (application for enlistment in the Army Reserves in 1921, his medals etc.) he always was Nolan, and his address that of his mother and stepfather.
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