25th September 1915 On this day:  Trench Work  Attack Made 10th Scottish Rifles suffer at Loos   On this day, 10th Bn Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), part of 15 (Scottish) Div, attacked the German lines at Loos in their first major engagement of the Great War. The battalion lost 255 dead this day.  Attack Made    2nd Battalion fought at Loos on this day, attacking Hulluch Quarries.Their advance commenced at 6.30am. Taking the German front line trench & support trench and then onto the Quarries as far as St Elie,capturing 60 prisoners.Other Ranks Killed - 64. Wounded - 171. Missing - 273. Battle of Loos   6th London Field Artillery Brigade march from Haillicourt to Les Brebis and bivouacked at Les Brebnis. They were part of artillery support for 140,141 and 142 Infantry Brigades in 47th Division which was attached to 4th Corps. Capt. Corsan was wounded in the neck by a bullet whilst fixing in Maroc for detached section of 15th London Battery. Lt Bruce was wounded during the initial attack by the 19th Battalion London Regiment just as he reached the German front line trenches. Detached section (under 2/Lt Petro) fixed on Double Crassier during the infantry attack. The 15th London Battery detached section under Capt. Corsan fired during the attack. War Diaries 8th SLI in action at Chalk Pit Wood   The 8th Somerset Light Infantry are in action at Chalk Pit Wood, Loos during the Battle of Loos. 1st Battalion Royal Scots in France 1915.   1st Battalion in Somme region Picardie, France 14th DLI enter the trenches   The 14th battalion DLI's first experience of total war took place on the 25th September 1915 when the 14th were moved up into reserve trenches on the Loos battlefield, near Noeux-les-Mines.  On the march Sheffield City Battalion depart Ripon   The 12th York and Lancs Battalion leave Ripon Camp late at night, they march through pouring rain to the station and entrain for an eleven hour journey to Salisbury. Sheffield City Battalion - Ralph Gibson & Paul Oldfield  Into Action at the Gallop  Beyond all Imagination    The 7th and 8th Battalions Kings Own Scottish Borderers where at the Battle of Loos on September 25th 1915. The 7th KOSB lost approx 2/3 of their numbers and the 8th KOSB lost approx 1/3 of their numbers that day and over the next 2 days. On the Move   1400hrs Orders received to concentrate for move. E Battery RHA marched with Brigade to Cauchy, left 1600hrs got in around 2300hrs. Roads very crowded and blocked, raining hard. 3 remounts joined us on the march. Good strong American horses. E Battery RHA war diary  Back into action 8th East Yorks in action   According to the Battalion War Diary 8th Bn East Yorkshire Regiment took part in the main attack at Loos on the 25th September 2015 and were not in reserve. They were fighting in the SE corner of Loos village and also had two companies on the slack heaps throughout the 25th and 26th September 1915  Piped over the Parapet  1st Bty RFA in action Assualt Launched   At 6.30 on the morning of 25th of September 1915, the four-day artillery bombardment paused, gas and smoke was released and the infantry assault was launched. The gas released on I Corps front hung between the lines or blew back into British positions, notably on the northern flank around the Brickstacks. To the northern edge of the battlefield, advancing infantry emerging from the cloud suffered high losses as they were met with devastating machine gun fire. The second wave advanced once the gas at cleared, only this time to be cut down by a hail of machine gun fire and a shower of bombs. Gas was far more effective on IV Corps front south of the Grenay Ridge, in front of 15 & 47 Division sector the gas drifted towards the German trenches and the advance more successful. On some divisional fronts the gas was supplemented with smoke candles, as gas was not available in sufficient quantity. Even though it would not cause casualties, the smoke looked the same as gas and so forced the defenders to continue taking all the inconvenient anti-gas precautions. It had been estimated that to clear the German positions would require two hours of gas: but there was only enough for forty minutes, which even then, had to be supplemented with smoke. Many of the British units achieved their first objectives, but the reserve troops urgently needed to exploit these initial successes were a long way back and after a long exhausting march did not go into action until the following day. By which time the German reinforcements were counter-attacking and the British were driven back. By the end of the day the Allies had lost 13 Battalion commanders, over 400 officers and 8,500 men of other ranks.  8th Devons Attack  1st South Staffs in Action  10th Gordons Attack  10th Scottish Rifles Attack  9th Black Watch Attack  Diversionary Attack  2nd Warwicks Attack  5th Ox & Bucks in Action  9th RWF in Action  12th Rifle Brigade in Support  11th Royal Scots in Action  Prisoners Escape  Diversionary Attack  No Mercy  2nd HLI in Action  19th Brigade in Action  Ports Bombarded  German Positions Bombarded  Three Lines Captured  10th Sherwoods and 7th Borders Cover  Diversionary Attack  Out of the Line  5th Camerons in Action  2nd Ox & Bucks in Action  In Action  engineers Bridge Enemy Trenches  Battle of Loos  In Reserve  1st Glosters in Action  2nd Coldstreams Attack  Bursting Shells  9th Liverpools in Acton  First to Reach Loos  6th KRRC in Action  Rats doing the Tango  In Acion  In Action    Attack Continues  The Great Charge    Paying Back Old Debts  Beyond Powers of Description  Sap Held  Oblivious to the Fire  On the Attack  Out of the Line  Artillery In Action  In Action  Attack Made  In Action  In Camp  Smoke  On the March  Into the Trenches  In Action  In Action  In Action  In Action  Under Fire  Quiet  Limited Ammunition  Overcrowded Billets  Reconnoitring Fire Trenches  Bombardment  Smoke  Wind  Wind    Orders  Patrols  Artillery  Operations  Orders  In Action  Attack Made  Reliefs  Wet  Attacks Made  Attack Made  Report  In Action  Attack Made  In Action  In Action  Objectives Gained  Artillery Active  In Action  On the Move  In Reserve  Over the Top  Relief  Dummy Attack  In Action  On the Move  On the Move  London Scottish Attack  Outline of Operations  On the March  1st Army Success Cheered  Mine  Diversion  On the Move  Attack  In trenches supporting an attack  A Move to Corons du Rutoires  Bivouac  Exchange of Fire  Gas attack  Attack Made  Assault Made  Successful assault  In Action  In Action  On the Move  On the Move  Standing By  Best Section  Attack Made  1st Army had Attacked the Germans Can you add to this factual information? 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Remembering those who died this day, 25th of September 1915. William "Willie" Abernethy. Read their Story. Pte. Walter Ainsworth. 9th Btn. Warwickshire Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. Gordon Stephenson Allan. 8th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders Read their Story. Rfmn. William Allison. 9th Battalion Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consorts Own) Read their Story. Pte. Noah Aplin. 8th Btn. Devonshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Ellis Ardrey. 9th Battalion Rifle Brigade Capt. George William Ashby. 6th (City of London) Battalion London Regiment Read their Story. Rfmn. Thomas Ashe. 1st Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Pte. Arthur Baglin. 10th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Pte. William Henry Baker. 2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment Read their Story. Sgt. Raymond Bassett. 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment L/Cpl. James Bathard. 6th Btn. Wiltshire Regiment Pte. Samuel Bathard. 6th Btn. Wiltshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Harry Percy Baulk. 8th Btn. Queen's Royal West Surrey Read their Story. Rfm. James Behan. 2nd Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Pte. Joseph Bell. 1st Btn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) Read their Story. Pte John Berry. 6th Pte. Albert Charles Bick. 8 Btn. West Surrey Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Albert Charles Bick. Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Samuel Thomas Binnell. 2nd Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment Pte. William Birch. 1st Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment Read their Story. Rfmn. Frederick Charles "Fred" Bird. 2nd Btn Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Cpl. James McArther Bird. 12th Service Btn. Royal Scots Read their Story. Cpl Gilbert Brown Ritchie Blackadder. 12th Btn Highland Light Infantry Read their Story. Rflm. Michael Bowes. 2nd Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Pte. William Bridges. 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment Pte Amos Albert Britnell. 2nd Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte Robert Brown. 8th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders Pte. Robert Carr. 8th Btn. Gordon Highlanders Read their Story. Pte. Christopher John Caudwell. 2nd Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment Read their Story. Cpl. James Fairley Christie. 10th Btn. Scottish Rifles Read their Story. Sgt. John Rattray Clark. 7th Btn. Queens Own Cameron Highlanders Read their Story. Rfm. Frank Cliffe. 12th Battalion Rifle Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Claude Cyril Coc. 6th Btn. Kings Own Scottish Borderers Rfn George Edward Coles. 9th Btn King's Royal Rifle Corps Pte. Alfred Collins. 5th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. James Connell. 4th Btn. Black Watch Read their Story. Rflmn. John Cove. 9th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Sgt. Walter Edward Cowles. 9th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Pte. Henry John Cozier. 5th Battalion Oxfordshire and Bucks Light Infantry L/Cpl. Percy Cresswell. 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John William Cutmore. 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Edward John Dash. 2nd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment Lt-Col. Charles Elrington Duncan Davidson-Houston. DSO. 58th (Vaughan's) Rifles Read their Story. Lt.Col. Charles Elrington Duncan Davidson-Houston. DSO. 58th (Vaughan's) Rifles Read their Story. Pte. Robert R Deary. 5th Btn. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders Read their Story. Pte Richard Dick. 8th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders Read their Story. Spr. T. Dick. 3rd Signal Coy. Royal Engineers Pte. Charles Dickie. 10th Btn. Highland Light Infantry Read their Story. Sig. Arthur Johnson Dixon. 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Lt.Col. Richard Charles Dundas. MID 11th Btn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) Read their Story. Lt.Col. Richard Charles Dundas. Royal Scots Read their Story. Pte. Christopher Joseph Dundon. 1st Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Read their Story. Sgt. Thomas Dunn. 12th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Sgt. Albert John Edwards. 1st Btn. D Coy. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) Read their Story. Pte. James Henry Eustace. 8th Battalion Princess Charlotte of Wales Royal Berkshire Regime Read their Story. Sgt. Richard Edmonston Ewen. 4th Btn. Gordon Highlanders Read their Story. Pte. George Fleming. 10th Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Rfmn. James Flynn. 9th (Service) Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. John Foster. 1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment Read their Story. 2nd Lt. George Glyn Fowler. Kings Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Lt. George Glyn Fowler. King's Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Pte. Arthur Fredrick Freeman. 10th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment Pte. Walter Fullylove. 2nd Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment Sjt. Robert Rodman Fulton. 1st Btn. Gordon Highlanders Pte. Leonard Norton "Dick" Gammidge. 15th (Civil Service Rifles) Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Alexander Thomas Gilbert. 8th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry Pte. Alexander Gordon. 9th Btn. G Coy. Gordon Highlanders Pte. Francis Gore. 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Archibald "Izal" Graham. 11th Btn. Highland Light Infantry L/Cpl. Joseph Guest. 10th Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Read their Story. L/Cpl. Joseph Guest. 10th Battalion Cameronians Scottish Rifles Pte. Frederick Somerton Gunter. 9th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Read their Story. Lt. Herbert Otho Hamilton. 12th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. William Hamilton. 8th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders Pte. James Hanson. 8th Btn. A Coy. Seaforth Highlanders Read their Story. Pte. George Leonard Hey. 2nd Battalion Royal Berkshire Regment Read their Story. Sgt. Samuel Edward Hibbert. 12th Btn. King's Liverpool Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Samuel Hickling. 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Peter Hilton. 12th Battalion Kings Liverpool Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Holden. 10th Bn. Cameronians Scottish Rifles Read their Story. Pte. John Henry "Mad Jack" Horton. 6th Btn., "D" Coy. Somerset Light Infantry Read their Story. Major William James Seymour Hosley. MID 6th Btn. King's Own Scottish Borderers L/Sgt. John Thomas Hughes. 9th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusilliers L/Sgt. John Thomas Hughes. 9th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Pte. Robert Thomas Hughes. 4th Btn Royal Welsh Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. William Impson. 8th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry Read their Story. L/Cpl William Kelly. 3rd then 2nd Battalions Argylle & Sutherland Highlanders Pte. Thomas Kennedy. 11th Btn. Highland Light Infantry 2Lt. William Robert Kennedy. 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Read their Story. Capt. Arthur Forbes Gordon Kilby. VC MC 2nd Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. George Mitchell Kirkwood. C Coy.12th Btn. Highland Light Infantry Pte. Joseph Lascelles. 15th Batn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. David Lewis. 9th Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Read their Story. Pte. David Lewis. 9th Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Read their Story. Sgt. Dawson Lewis. 6th (Service) Battalion Kings Own Scottish Borderers Pte. William Lewthwaite. 9th Btn. Black Watch Read their Story. Pte. Patrick Collins Leys. 8th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders Pte. Edward Lister. 10th Battalion Scottish Rifles (Cameronians) Read their Story. Pte. Jeffrey Lupton. 12th Btn. Highland Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Harold Makin. 12th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Pte. Harry Marriott. 2nd Battalion, Machine Gun Section Border Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Harry Marshall. 8th Btn. Kings Own Scottish Borderers Read their Story. Pte. John William Mason. 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Alfred Rowland Matthews. 10th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Read their Story. Sgt. David McCann. 9th Btn. Black Watch Read their Story. Pte. Watson McKay. 9th Btn. Black Watch Read their Story. L/Sgt. William Johnston McVitie. 9th Btn London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Charles William Milne. 5th Btn. Cameron Highlanders Read their Story. Capt. Edward Thomas John Milton. 13th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Frank Moore. 2nd Btn. Capt. Alexander Morrison. Read their Story. Pte Patrick Mulligan. 12th Battalion Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) Read their Story. Sgt. William Munn. 10th Battalion Scottish Rifles Read their Story. Pte. Arthur Parr. 10th Btn. Cameronians Scottish Rifles Read their Story. Pte John "Jock" Paterson. 10th Battalion Gordon Highlanders Read their Story. Rflemn. George Peachment. VC. 2nd Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Edward Perry. 2nd Btn. Royal Berkshire Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. Reginald William Poole. 8th Btn. Royal Berkshire Regiment Read their Story. Lt. Charles Power. 2nd Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regt Rflmn. Bernard Thomas Quinn. 9th Battalion Rifle Vrigade Read their Story. Capt. Anketell Moutray Read. VC. 1st Btn. Northamptonshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Albert Allen Readings. 1st Btn. Middlesex Regiment Pte. Archibald Reid. 5th Btn. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders L/Cpl. James Reid. 8th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders Pte. Alexander Stuart Roberts. 1st Btn. Black Watch Read their Story. Rfmn. Robert Roberts. 2nd Bn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Cpl. Benjamin Robinson. 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment Sgt. William Alexander Robison. 46th Brigade Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Pte. Walter DeFrece Robson. 12th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. George Roden. 9th Btn. Cheshire Regiment L/Cpl. Frederick William Sandbach. 1st/1st Cheshire Field Coy. Royal Engineers Read their Story. Pte. Archibald Scott. 12th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Pte. James Scott. 1st Battalion Royal Scots Read their Story. Lt. James Scott. MiD. 6th Btn. Gordon Highlanders Read their Story. Capt. Henry Langton Skrine. 6th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Frederick Smith. 1st Battalion West Surrey Regiment Read their Story. Rfmn. Joseph Smith. 2nd Btn. Rifle Brigade Pte. Frederick Sparrow. 5th Btn. Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Lt. James Vesey Stanford. 8th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders Read their Story. Rflmn. David Steele. 1st Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Corporal David Stoddart. 7th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders Read their Story. Pte. Harold Swain. 8th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry Pte. Walter Tansley. 10th Btn. (Cameronians) Scottish Rifles Pte. David Anderson Taylor. 10th Btn. Cameronian (Scottish Rifles) Read their Story. Pte. George Laird Taylor. 8th Btn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) Read their Story. L/Cpl. Harry Taylor. 2nd Btn. Leicestershire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Herbert Taylor. 2nd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment Pte. Thomas Taylor. 8th Btn. West Surrey Regiment (Queens) Read their Story. Pte. Robert Dixon Hardy Thomas. 8th Battallion Somerset Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte Robert "Little Bob" Thrower. 8th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders Read their Story. Lt. Geoffrey Eugene Tracey. 9th Battalion, Machine Gun Section Devonshire Regiment Read their Story. 2nd Lt. Arthur William Winterton Turnour. 2nd Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. William Thomas Voss. 10th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Sgt. Andrew Wallace. 1st/7th Battalion Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) Read their Story. Pte. John Wallace. 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry Read their Story. L/Cpl. Alfred George Warman. 2nd Btn. Berkshire Regiment Read their Story. Sgt. John Douglas Watson. 9th Btn. G Coy. Gordon Highlanders Read their Story. Spr. Jack Watts. 91st Field Coy. Royal Engineers Read their Story. Pte. Bertie Thomas Webb. 2nd Btn. Berkshire Regiment Read their Story. Sgt Joseph Webber. 8th Btn Somerset Light Infantry Sgt. Harry Wells. VC. 2nd Btn. Royal Sussex Regiment Read their Story. Cpl. James Heslop White. 2nd Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Pte. John White. 9th Btn. Black Watch Pte. Thomas Wilkins. 9th Btn. Royal Welch Fusiliers L/Sgt Leonard Norman Wilkinson. 2nd Battalion Border Regiment Read their Story. Lt. Michael William Maxwell Windle. 8th Btn. Devonshire Regiment Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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