Military history

Tracing British Battalions on the Somme

Tracing British Battalions on the Somme

The Battle of the Somme was the bloodiest battle of the First World War. Here, the author has collated all the information gathered, to produce a comprehensive compendium of the exact movements of every battalion involved in the battle.

Introduction

Grenadier Guards

Coldstream Guards

Scots Guards

Irish Guards

Welsh Guards

Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)

Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment)

Buffs (East Kent Regiment)

King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)

Northumberland Fusiliers

Royal Warwickshire Regiment

Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)

King’s (Liverpool Regiment)

Norfolk Regiment

Lincolnshire Regiment

Devonshire Regiment

Suffolk Regiment

Prince Albert’s (Somerset Light Infantry)

Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)

East Yorkshire Regiment

Bedfordshire Regiment

Leicestershire Regiment

Royal Irish Regiment

Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire Regiment)

Lancashire Fusiliers

Royal Scots Fusiliers

Cheshire Regiment

Royal Welsh Fusiliers

South Wales Borderers

King’s Own Scottish Borderers

Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

Gloucestershire Regiment

Worcestershire Regiment

East Lancashire Regiment

East Surrey Regiment

Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)

Border Regiment

Royal Sussex Regiment

Hampshire Regiment

South Staffordshire Regiment

Dorsetshire Regiment

Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)

Welsh Regiment

Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Essex Regiment

Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)

Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

Northamptonshire Regiment

Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment)

Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)

King’s Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)

King’s (Shropshire Light Infantry)

Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)

King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment)

Manchester Regiment

Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment)

York And Lancaster Regiment

Durham Light Infantry

Highland Light Infantry

Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-Shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany’s)

Gordon Highlanders

Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders

Royal Irish Rifles

Princess Victoria’s (Royal Irish Fusiliers)

Connaught Rangers

Princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)

Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)

Royal Munster Fusiliers

Royal Dublin Fusiliers

Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own)

Honourable Artillery Company (Territorial Force)

Monmouthshire Regiment (Territorial Force)

Cambridgeshire Regiment (Territorial Force)

London Regiment (Territorial Force)

Hertfordshire Regiment (Territorial Force)

63rd (Royal Naval) Division

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