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4th Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
4th Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers was converted to a motorcycle battalion in 1938, they served with 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division which was a Motor Division. They proceeded to France in January 1940 and saw action in France and Belgium, including the action on the Ypres-Comines Canal. They were evacuated from Dunkirk in June 1940 and
came under command of Home Forces until the 30 April 1941 when the battalion was redesignated as 50th Battalion, (later 50th Regiment) Reconnaissance Corps. In March 1943 they reverted to being 4th Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. The battalion was placed in suspended animation on the 25th of April 1944, when the personnel formed three independent machine gun companies for 21st Army Group, 1st Independent Machine Gun Company assigned to the Guards Armoured Division, 2nd Independent Machine Gun Company assigned to the 11th Armoured Division and 3rd Independent Machine Gun Company assigned to the 7th Armoured Division. All three served throughout the North-West Europe Campaign.
1st Sep 1939 Warning
11th Sep 1939 Transfer 
10th May 1940 Advance
27th May 1940 On the March
28th May 1940 Move
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Those known to have served with 4th Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Clark Arthur. Fus. (d.02 June 1940)
- Clark Ronald. Sgt. (d.6th June 1942)
- Cooper William Edward Peter. Sgt.
- Farthing Eric Baden Powel. Fus. (d.6th Sept 1944)
- Mitcheson Ernest Robert. Fus. (d.30th May 1940)
- Newton Cornelius. Fslr. (d.19th May 1940)
- Ormston John. Fslr. (d.20/21st June 1940)
- Robertson James. Sgt.
- Thompson Albert. Fus. (d.19th May 1940)
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Fus. Eric Baden Powel Farthing 4th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers (d.6th Sept 1944) Eric Farthing died on the 6th of September 1944 in Brussels (Bruxelles), Belgium
He was in the 4th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, which landed at Normandy 27th of June 1944, and was engaged in securing the port of Antwerp.
During severe enemy action in Brussels, Eric was mortally wounded on the 6th of September and was buried in Brussels Town cemetery, Eveer, cared for by the Commonwealth War Graves.
He was son of John Hubert Baden Powell Farthing and Elizabeth Ellen Farthing, husband of Joyce Kathleen Farthing of Fulford, Yorkshire.
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Sgt. Ronald Clark 50th (Royal Northumberland Fusiliers) Regiment Reconnaissance Corps (d.6th June 1942) Sargent Ronald Clark was killed in action at Acroma in Libya and is buried in Knightsbridge War Cemetery.
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Fus. Albert Thompson 4th Btn. Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (d.19th May 1940) Albert Thompson is buried in a little village in Flanders, named Sint-Lievens-Esse.
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Sgt. William Edward Peter Cooper Rifle Brigade Sgt. Bill. Cooper was captured in North Africa whilst serving attached to the 4th Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, he was interned firstly at Campo 66 and then Campo 53 at Sforzacosta. He escaped over the wall in early September 1943 and after walking south he rejoined the British Forces at the River Sangro. Returned to the U.K. he joined the Parachute Regiment and managed to survive the war.
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Fslr. Cornelius "Neilie" Newton 4th Btn. Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (d.19th May 1940) My uncle Neilie Newton was in Belgium with the British Expeditionary Force in 1940. He was a motorcycle rider as the 4th Battalion of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers were a motorbike battalion. He was killed by a parachute mine on 19th May at the age of 20. He is buried in Belgium.
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Fslr. John Ormston 4th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers (d.20/21st June 1940) My grandfather, John Ormston, was aged 32 when he died. He was born in Morpeth in 1908 and lived in Newcastle upon Tyne. He died in June 1940 and is buried in France. I have no photos of him. He left a wife Annie and three children.
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