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East Lancashire Regiment


peter-t

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I am researching my family history and would be interested to find out the actual position in the line of the 1st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment on 1st July 1916. A rather distant relative was KIA that day and became one of the missing commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.

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They were in the frontline covering an area opposite the northern bit of the village of Beaumont Hamel and the Redan Ridge.

Dave.

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They were in the frontline covering an area opposite the northern bit of the village of Beaumont Hamel and the Redan Ridge.

Dave.

This map shows the location according to the British Official History...

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...and this is from the East Lancs' Regimental History...

dave.

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Thanks Dave for your breathtakingly speedy replies to my enquiry about the E.Lancs. The maps are useful and I will print these out to add to my family history file.

peter-t

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