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noon a little beyond this; but there it had to remain'. However IV Corps renewed the attack after dark: 'The night was very dark and rainy, but the attack was a complete success; the enemy was surprised; very little opposition was encountered and many prisoners were taken. Under barrages moving a hundred yards in 5 minutes, the front lines of the 125th and
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British Army. Those men who had not volunteered for overseas service were left behind, together with floods of recruits, to form 2nd Line battalions (2/5th–2/8th Lancashire Fusiliers) in a 2nd East Lancashire Division. The 1st Line battalions were then renumbered 1/5th–1/8th. On 26 May
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passed through to continue the attack. 125th
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stages of the attack, men on both sides being killed by the bayonet". The left of 125th
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or the First Battles of the Somme 1918), the troops of 42nd Division took part in the Battle of Bapaume (24–25 March), First Battle of Arras (28 March) and the Battle of Ancre (5 April). Then, during the Allied
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492:ended in evacuation back to Egypt.
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599:Battle of the Canal du Nord
515:British Expeditionary Force
420:125th Machine Gun Company,
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482:Battle of Krithia Vineyard
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470:Second Battle of Krithia
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1065:Becke, Pt2b, pp. 68–74.
1013:Becke, Pt2a, pp. 36–41.
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478:Third Battle of Krithia
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335:On the outbreak of the
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652:Armistice with Germany
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278:evacuated at Dunkirk
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619:Battle of the Selle
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106:Gallipoli: 25 April
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1231:on 3 January 2006
1225:www.regiments.org
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