... Fusilier units were engaged in every theatre of war except Mesopotamia, and the numbers of all ranks in France at the Battle of the Somme exceeded the strength of the Allied Army at Inkermau. The Irish Regiment. It is very natural that veterans of the Royal ...

... been raised. —[Photograph by Henry G. Copeland.] enumerated than took part in the first battle of the British Expeditionary Force . . . At the Battle of the Somme there were a greater number of Royal Fusiliers engaged in France than the total allied force ...

... summarised as follows The Division, which came out on 25th July, 1915. has taken part in most of the great battles of the Somme, i.e., the Somme, the Anere (autumn and spring), Arras, Flanders, the Retreat from the Oise, Defence of Amiens, the Advance ...