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9th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers    9th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) was raised at Hounslow on 21 August 1914 as part of Kitchener's First New Army and joined 36th Brigade, 12th (Eastern) Division. 36th Brigade underwent training at Colchester then final training was undertaken near Aldershot from the 20th of February 1915, with the cavalry, motor machine gun battery, sanitary and veterinary sections joining. The Division proceeded to France between the 29th of May and 1st of June 1915 landing at Boulogne, they concentrated near St Omer and by 6th of June were in the Meteren-Steenwerck area with Divisional HQ being established at Nieppe. They underwent instruction from the more experienced 49th (South Midland) Division and took over a section of the front line at Ploegsteert Wood on the 23rd of June 1915. They were in action in The Battle of Loos from the 30th of September, taking over the sector from Gun Trench to Hulluch Quarries consolidating the position, under heavy artillery fire. On the 9th they repelled a heavy German infantry attack and on the 13th took part in the Action of the Hohenzollern Redoubt, capturing Gun Trench and the south western face of the Hulluch Quarries. During this period at Loos, 117 officers and 3237 men of the Division were killed or wounded.By the 21st they moved to Fouquieres-les-Bethune for a short rest then returned to the front line at the Hohenzollern Redoubt until the 15th of November, when they went into reserve at Lillers. On the 9th of December, 9th Royal Fusiliers assisted in a round-up of spies and other suspicious characters in the streets of Bethune. On the 10th the Division took over the front line north of La Bassee canal at Givenchy. On the 19th of January they began a period of training in Open Warfare at Busnes, then moved back into the front line at Loos on the 12th of February 1916. In June they moved to Flesselles and carried out a training exercise. They moved to Baizieux on the 30th June and went into the reserve at Hencourt and Millencourt by mid morning on the 1st of July. They relieved the 9th Division at Ovillers-la-Boisselle that night and attacked at 3.15 the following morning with mixed success. On the 7th they attacked again and despite suffering heavy casualties in the area of Mash Valley, they succeeded in capturing and holding the first and second lines close to Ovillers. They were withdrawn to Contay on the 9th July. They were in action in The Battle of Pozieres on the 3rd of August with a successful attack capturing 4th Avenue Trench and were engaged in heavy fighting until they were withdrawn on the 9th. They moved north and in 1917 were in action at Arras in The First Battle of the Scarpe, The Battle of Arleux and The Third Battle of the Scarpe. They remained in the Arras sector until the 30th of October when they moved to Hesdin for the Cambrai offensive in which the Division suffered heavy losses. In March 1918 they moved by motor lorry from Busnes to Albert and were in action in The Battle of Bapaume and spent the spring engaged in heavy fighting a the enemy advanced across the old Somme battlefields. On the 1st of July 1918, they attacked Bouzincourt. but were repelled by the enemy. They were relieved on the 10th and moved to the area south of Amiens. They were in action in The Battle of Amiens and were engaged in heavy fighting from the 22nd pushing the enemy back and capturing Meaulte, Mametz, Carnoy, Hardecourt and Faviere Wood with in a week. In September they were in action in a successful attack on Nurlu and pursued the enemy back to Sorel Wood. They were in action during The battles of the Hindenburg Line, including The Battle of Epehy and The Battle of the St Quentin canal. In October they fought in The Final Advance in Artois reaching the Scheldt Canal by the 27th. They were withdrawn for rest on the 30th and after the Armistice moved to the area east of Douai and were engaged in battlefield salvage and sports until demobilisation began. 29th Jul 1915 Under Shellfire 27th September 1915 Orders 16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme 21st Oct 1915 Reliefs 25th Oct 1915 On the March   12th Nov 1915 Reliefs 18th Nov 1915 On the March   1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets 11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment 10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens 16th Jan 1916 On the Move 19th Jan 1916 Drill 20th Jan 1916 Inspection 25th Jan 1916 Route March 30th Jan 1916 On the March 1st Feb 1916 Orders Cancelled 3rd Feb 1916 Reorganisation 5th Feb 1916 Change of Billets 9th February 1916 Call Ups 2nd Mar 1916 Attack Made 30th Mar 1916 Change of Billets   17th Apr 1916 On the Move   3rd May 1916 Route March 7th May 1916 Church Parade 14th May 1916 Heavy Rain 15th May 1916 Still Raining 18th May 1916 Training 20th May 1916 Brigade Sports 21st May 1916 Church Parade 4th Jun 1916 Church Parade 27th Jun 1916 On the March 1st July 1916 In Reserve 3rd July 1916 In the Trenches 6th July 1916 Orders Issued   7th July 1916 Attack Made   8th July 1916 Reliefs Completed 10th Jul 1916 On the March 11th Jul 1916 On the March 14th Jul 1916 Composite Battalion 15th Jul 1916 Training and Recce 16th Jul 1916 Reliefs Completed 27th Jul 1916 On the March 4th Aug 1916 In Action   5th Aug 1916 Prisoners Taken 10th Aug 1916 Royal Inspection 11th Aug 1916 On the March 16th Aug 1916 On the March 17th Aug 1916 On the March 1st Oct 1916 Reliefs 2nd Oct 1916 Heavy Shelling 3rd Oct 1916 Shelling 4th Oct 1916 Shelling 5th Oct 1916 Heavy Shelling 6th Oct 1916 Shelling 7th Oct 1916 Attack Made 8th Oct 1916 Heavy Shelling 12th Oct 1916 Attack Made 15th Feb 1917 Reliefs 6th Mar 1917 Inspection 1st Jan 1918 Training 2nd Jan 1918 Training 3rd Jan 1918 Training 4th Jan 1918 Training 5th Jan 1918 Moves   6th Jan 1918 Moves   7th Jan 1918 Training 8th Aug 1918 Attack Made   22nd Aug 1918 Attack Made   25th Aug 1918 Attack Made   28th Aug 1918 Holding the Line 29th Aug 1918 On the Move 25th Sep 1918 Medals Awarded If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 9th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers? There are:5302 items tagged 9th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers 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 9th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers during the Great War 1914-1918. Ainscow George Alfred. Pte. (d.18th Sep 1918) Betts Walter Herbert. Pte. (d.23rd Sep 1918) Birch Rupert. Pte. (d.10th Jul 1916) Burridge George. Pte. (d.9th Apr 1917) Butterfield . Pte. Collins George . Pte. (d.7th Jul 1916) Crane Henry Ernest. Pte. (d.27th October 1916) Everett Herbert James. Pte. (d.7th Oct 1916) Flack DCM & bar. CdeG. William Alfred. Sgt. Gorton William Thomas . Pte. (d.1st December 1916) Greenaway Noelle Charles William. Cpl. (d.4th Aug 1916) Hayden Military Medal Frederick Henry. Sjt. Hinchcliffe William. Pte. Hinchcliffe William John. Pte. Humphries Charles Frederick. Cpl. Johnson Tom. Cpl. (d.27th Mar 1918) King Arthur. Pte. (d.9th October 1916) Lambeth George William. Pte. Leather Charles Henry. Cpl. Mackenzie James Wesley. Lt. Mallinson Wilfred. Pte. (d.30th November 1917) March Percy James. Pte Myddleton William. Pte. (d.17th March 1916) Patrick Ernest William . Pte. Redgrave Henry James. Pte. (d.28th August 1918) Snedker DSO. Harold. Sgt. Spuffard Joseph Henry. Pte. Tough Victor. Cpl. (d.8th/9th Apr1916) Wagg Amos. Pte. (d.3rd Mar 1916) Wood Rupert. Pte. Wright Samuel. Pte. (d.13th April 1916) York Robert. Pte. (d.9th April 1917) All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of 9th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers from other sources. 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His citation for the DSO reads: For conspicuous gallantry during an attack on Hardecourt and the Maltz Horn Farm Ridge on 28th of August 1918, owing to many casualties amongst officers, he had to take command of two platoons. These he led with great skill and courage, in spite of heavy opposition from machine guns and shell fire. On reaching the objective the remaining officer in his company was wounded. He immediately assumed command of the whole company, reorganised them, and commenced to put the line in a state of defence. Throughout the time he walked to and fro amongst his men cheering and urging them on. Later in the day he observed a large party of the enemy withdrawing on the left of his company. Without a moment's hesitation he directed the fire of his Lewis guns and rifles on them, inflicting heavy losses, and making them scatter in confusion. He remained in command of the company throughout the day until an officer was sent up. Oliver Snedker Add to this record.   Pte. Rupert Birch 9th Btn, Royal Fusiliers (d.10th Jul 1916) Rupert Birch was born in 1894, one of a large family at Greenbank Farm,Foxt, Staffordshire Moorlands. He attended the local Methodist chapel, and followed his father in working for The North Staffordshire Railway. Enlisting in November 1915, he was badly wounded in action on 7th of July 1916 and died 3 days later. He was buried at Puchevillers Military Cemetery. He is commemorated on the small war memorial at St Mark's church, Foxt, and the North Staffordshire Railway memorial at Stoke On Trent railway station. Add to this record.   Cpl. Noelle Charles William Greenaway 9th Btn. Royal Fusiliers (d.4th Aug 1916) Leslie Worrall died on the Somme on 4th of August 1916. He was a young man originally from Highgate in London, the only child of of widower Charles Stephen Worrall from 5 Muswell Hill. (Charles was a talented goldsmith, a casket he was commissioned to make to celebrate the enlargement of the Victoria & Albert Museum, can be seen in that museum). Leslie started his working life in the City of London, and joined up with the Royal Fusiliers (Bankers) and is memorialised in the South Western Bank's Memorial Books now kept safe by Barclays Bank in the City. Leslie is my great Uncle via his father Charles, whose second marriage was to my maternal grandmother, Katie Cooke, after WW1. The Cooke family were of Hornsey & Muswell Hill, and my other great Uncle was Katie's younger brother Rifleman Frederic Arthur Cooke of the 1/5th London Regiment (initially Middlesex Regt) who died on the Somme on 9th September 1916. They died roughly one month apart, two young men from the same neighbourhood, and they are commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. I hope to find a photo of Leslie. Noelle Greenaway Add to this record.   Pte. George William Lambeth 9th Btn. Royal Fusiliers We only know that George Lambeth was wounded, probably in The Battle of the Scarpe in May 1917. His wound eventually turned gangrenous, and was a contributing factor in his death, 50 years later in 1965. Add to this record.   Pte. Henry James Redgrave 9th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (d.28th August 1918) Jim Redgrave served with the 9th Royal Fusiliers Sally M Bunday Add to this record.   Pte. Robert York 9th Btn. Royal Fusiliers (d.9th April 1917) Robert York is buried in Duisan British Cemetery at Etrun. Ian Holland Add to this record.   Pte. William Thomas Gorton 9th Btn. Royal Fusiliers (d.1st December 1916) William Gorton born about 1880 was the son of Henry and Bessie Gorton. The 1911 census shows him living with his widowed father (his mother had died prior to 1901), his sister Edith and aunt Mary Egleton at 6 East Row The Steyne, Acton; He is a general labourer. He married Eleanor F Gorton and remained living in Acton, London. He served with the 9th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers and died on the 1st of December 1916 whilst a Prisoner of War in German Hands. He is buried in Niederzwehren Cemetery, Kassel, Hessen, Germany and is remembered on the War Memorial, St Mary's Church, Acton, London. Caroline Hunt Add to this record.   Pte. Henry Ernest Crane 9th Btn. Royal Fusiliers (d.27th October 1916) Henry Crane was born on the 4th November 1884, son of John Crane of Stoke Newington, London, husband of Irene Crane of Ruthven, Monkham's Drive, Woodford, Essex. He achieved a B.A. in Modern Languages in 1906 and a M.A in 1910. He was assistant head master at Heles School, Exeter 1906-108, at Kingswood school, Bath 1909 and finally at Bedford Modern School. Serving with the 9th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, he died on the 27th of October 1916 age 32 years in Lincoln and is buried at Lincoln (Newport) Cemetery. He is remembered on the War Memorial at Heles School, Exeter. A pupil of of Bedford Modern School (Modern Languages) 1915-16, commemorated on the School War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923.Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com Caroline Hunt Add to this record.   Lt. James Wesley Mackenzie 9th (Service) Btn. Royal Fusiliers James Mackenzie was a medical student at Cambridge when he enlisted on 3rd September 1914 and was sent to France in May 1915. He was wounded twice in France and finished up being demobbed in 1920 in Egypt from where he joined the Palestine Police. It was in 1922, as assistant district commander of Galilee, that he drowned in the flooded River Jordan trying to save an Arab Inspector. He is buried in Palestine. Margaret Penfpold Add to this record.   Pte. William Myddleton 9th Btn. Royal Fusiliers (d.17th March 1916) William was the son of William and Harriet Myddleton, 48 Post Office Lane, Denbigh. Richard Roberts Add to this record.   Pte. Walter Herbert Betts 9th Btn. Royal Fusiliers (d.23rd Sep 1918) Walter Betts, of the 9th Royal Fusiliers died on the 23rd of September 1918, aged 23. He was the son of Edward Emmanuel and Eliza Betts. He is buried in Doingt Communal Cemetery, France. Gone but never to be forgotten. Janet Bullard Add to this record.   Pte. Ernest William Patrick 9th Battalion Royal Fusiliers Ernie Patrick served with the 9th Royal Fusiliers. Add to this record.   Cpl. Charles Henry Leather 9th Btn. Royal Fusiliers My grandfather Charles Henry Leather sent a book to my grandmother from Vimy Ridge inscribed inside 'to sweet little goosie, Tamara, from her young man Harry. Sept 17th 1917. From Vimy Ridge. Stephanie Hazeldine Add to this record.   Cpl. Charles Frederick Humphries 9th Btn. Royal Fusiliers Charles Humphries served with the 9th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers Sue Hunter Add to this record.   Sgt. William Alfred Flack DCM & bar. CdeG. 9th Btn. Royal Fusiliers Sgt. William Alfred Flack served with the Royal Fusiliers 9th Battalion. I have D.C.M. and bar, first world war pair, French C.D.G. and GeoVI territorial medals but I can't confirm they are to same man although I am reasonably certain they are, any help would be appreciated. D.C.M. named 69450 Cpl. W.A. Flack 9/R.FUS., Pair named Pte. C.A. FLACK R.FUS., GVI territorial named 6449842 W.O. CL. 1 C.A.FLACK. The index card for pair shows gs-12932 and GS/128109 Charles A.FLACK R.FUS. DCM 69450 Cpl. W.A.FLACK 9/R.FUS., L.Gazette 16th January 1919 for both awards, from Cambridge. The French C.D.Guerre in L.Gazette 17th March 1920, 128109 Sgt. William Alfred FLACK 9th Btn. R.FUS. from Cambridge. Sid Thurkle Add to this record.   Pte. George Burridge 9th Btn. Royal Fusiliers (d.9th Apr 1917) George Burridge died aged 37, during the First Battle of the Scarpe during the Arras offensive in the spring of 1917. He was a brickworker, married with six children who left his home and family to fight with a new service battalion while in his mid 30s, the reason to which I have yet to establish. He is remembered on the the Arras Memorial. Paul Thompson Add to this record.   Pte. Butterfield 9th Btn. B Coy. Royal Fusiliers My Dads dad died in WW1. Pte Butterfield, I know dad had his medals and I have a photo of the regiment it says underneath 9th . S Bn . Royal Fusiliers B Coy. If anyone has a any info about him I would be grateful Sandra Add to this record.   Pte. Herbert James Everett 9th Bn. Royal Fusiliers (d.7th Oct 1916) Herbert James Everett was the youngest son of Robert and Jane Everett of Buckhurst Hill. He was killed in action at Ligny-Thilloy on 7th October 1916 aged 25. He is commemorated at the Thiepval Memorial. Not a single photo exists. Edith Morley Add to this record.   Pte. George Alfred Ainscow 9th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (City Of London Regiment) (d.18th Sep 1918) George Ainscow was born in Dublin, son of Mr and Mrs George Ainscow, of 57, Blessington Street, Dublin. He resided and enlisted in Stratford. He was killed in action age 21 and is buried in Epehy Wood Farm Cemetery, Epehy, Somme. s flynn Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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