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122nd Infantry Brigade



   122nd Infantry Brigade served with 41st Division on the Western front during the Great War.
    It was made up of:
  • 12th (Bermondsey) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
  • 15th (2nd Portsmouth) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment
  • 11th (Lewisham) Battalion, Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment (until March 1918)
  • 18th (Arts and Crafts) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps
  • 122nd Machine Gun Company (May 1916 to March 1918)
  • 122nd Trench Mortar Battery (from June 1916)


20th May 1915 122nd Brigade inspected

1st May 1916 On the Move

2nd May 1916 On the Move

3rd May 1916 On the Move

3rd May 1916 On the Move

4th May 1916 On the Move

4th May 1916 On the Move

5th May 1916 On the Move

5th May 1916 On the March  location map

5th May 1916 On the March

6th May 1916 Inspection

7th May 1916 Demonstration  location map

7th May 1916 Gas Helmets

8th May 1916 Concentration

8th May 1916 Inspection  location map

8th May 1916 Instruction  location map

9th May 1916 Orders

9th May 1916 On the March  location map

9th May 1916 Change of Billets  location map

10th May 1916 Orders

10th May 1916 Instruction  location map

10th May 1916 In Billets  location map

11th May 1916 Preparations

11th May 1916 Instruction  location map

12th May 1916 School of Instruction

12th May 1916 Instruction  location map

12th May 1916 Instruction  location map

13th May 1916 Postponement

13th May 1916 Instruction  location map

13th May 1916 Instruction  location map

14th May 1916 Trench Raid

14th May 1916 Instruction  location map

14th May 1916 Instruction  location map

15th May 1916 Instruction

15th May 1916 In Billets  location map

16th May 1916 Construction Work  location map

17th May 1916 Gas Alert

17th May 1916 Route March  location map

17th May 1916 Training

18th May 1916 Orders  location map

18th May 1916 Test Alarm  location map

18th May 1916 Training

19th May 1916 Gas Alert  location map

19th May 1916 Training

20th May 1916 Training

21st May 1916 Instruction  location map

21st May 1916 Training

22nd May 1916 Instruction  location map

22nd May 1916 Training

23rd May 1916 Instruction  location map

23rd May 1916 Training

24th May 1916 Training

25th May 1916 Training

26th May 1916 Training

27th May 1916 Gas Alert  location map

27th May 1916 Training

28th May 1916 On the March  location map

28th May 1916 On the March

29th May 1916 Reliefs  location map

30th May 1916 Quiet  location map

30th May 1916 Reliefs

31st May 1916 Quiet  location map

31st May 1916 Machine Guns Active

1st Jun 1916 Observation Balloon  location map

1st Jun 1916 Quiet

2nd Jun 1916 Quiet  location map

2nd Jun 1916 Bombardment

3rd Jun 1916 Quiet  location map

3rd Jun 1916 Artilery in Action

4th Jun 1916 Reliefs  location map

10th Jun 1916 Working Parties  location map

11th Jun 1916 Reliefs  location map

12th Jun 1916 Quiet  location map

13th Jun 1916 Quiet  location map

14th Jun 1916 Quiet  location map

15th Jun 1916 Quiet  location map

16th Jun 1916 Gas Alert  location map

17th Jun 1916 Gas Alert  location map

18th Jun 1916 Gas Alert  location map

21st Jun 1916 Working Parties  location map

22nd Jun 1916 Gas Alert  location map

23rd Jun 1916 Working Parties  location map

24th Jun 1916 Reliefs  location map

25th Jun 1916 Holding the Line  location map

26th Jun 1916 Quiet  location map

27th Jun 1916 Quiet  location map

28th Jun 1916 Quiet  location map

29th Jun 1916 Quiet  location map

30th Jun 1916 Trench Raid  location map

27th of July 1916  109th Brigade Enters the Line  location map

14th of August 1916 Drills

1st Sep 1916 Training

2nd Sep 1916 Training

3rd Sep 1916 Training

4th Sep 1916 Training

5th Sep 1916 Transport Moves  location map

6th Sep 1916 On the March  location map

7th Sep 1916 Training  location map

11th Sep 1916 On the March  location map

13th Sep 1916 Reliefs  location map

13th Sep 1916 Instructions  location map

14th September 1916 123rd Infantry Brigade Order 31.  location map

14th Sep 1916 Reliefs  location map

14th Sep 1916 Orders  location map

14th Sep 1916 Instructions  location map

15th Sep 1916 Attack Made  location map

15th Sep 1916 Orders  location map

16th Sep 1916 Reorganisation  location map

17th Sep 1916 Reorganisation  location map

18th Sep 1916 Reliefs  location map

19th September 1916 Intelligence Report  location map

19th Sep 1916 Reorganisation  location map

20th Sep 1916 Reorganisation  location map

21st Sep 1916 Training  location map

22nd Sep 1916 Training  location map

24th Sep 1916 Training  location map

27th Sep 1916 Training  location map

28th Sep 1916 Bad Weather  location map

1st Mar 1917 In Reserve

2nd Mar 1917 In Reserve

3rd Mar 1917 In Reserve

4th Mar 1917 In Reserve

5th Mar 1917 Reliefs

6th Mar 1917 Training

7th Mar 1917 Training

30th May 1917 Appendix "I" - Operational Order No. 9.  location map

7th June 1917 At 0030 hours night of 6th - 7th the Battalion moved on to tapes laid out behind our Front Line  location map

28th Jul 1917 Patrol  location map

23rd Mar 1918 Hard Fighting

24th Mar 1918 In Action

25th Mar 1918 Enemy Advance

30th June 1918 Operation Order No.7.   location map

30th June 1918 Instruction No.7. Para 2 to be read in conjunction with Operation Orders No. 7.

23rd July 1918 Relief complete

1st August 1918 Operational Order No.15. Ref.  location map

1st August 1918 Addenda to Operational Order No. 15.

1st August 1918 Reliefs

2nd August 1918 Working parties  location map

2nd September 1918 Inspection  location map

3rd September 1918 Operational Order

1st October 1918 Order received at 0100 hours for Brigade to move by march route at 0700 hours to Ypres - Menin Road

2nd Oct 1918 Intensive Action

2nd of October 1918 Co-operating with 29th Div  location map

12th October 1918 Quiet day. C.O.'s 122nd Brigade up in morning.  location map

16th of October 1918 Across the Lys  location map

23rd Oct 1918 Further Action  location map

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