BORDER REGIMENT: ... 11th Battalion (Service)(Lonsdale) Brown C S Captain : Photo Before starting out to trace people it is a good idea to gather as much information as possible. 1881 - formed by the amalgamation of 34th Foot (Cumberland) and 55th Foot (Westmorland) forming the 1st and 2nd Battalions of The Border Regiment Border Regt collar badge after 1883 - badge similar to that on the right was worn. This brass metal badge is finished to a high standard. A good rare die-stamped brass crest of the Earl of Lonsdale on scrolls “ELEVENTH BATTALION BORDER REGIMENT”. Formed from the depot companies of the 11th Battalion at Prees Heath as a local reserve battalion in the 17th Reserve Brigade. The 11th (Lonsdale) Battalion of the Border Regiment Description: Very few of the records survived in their original files but where this is the case the fact has been noted in square brackets. During the First World War, The Border Regiment had 10 Battalions which saw active service, seven of them on the Western Front. The majority of the papers were registered in the Orderly Room and some marked in crayon with subject headings. and has two lugs securely fixed on the back Timeline 8.3.1.2. WW1 British Army 11th Bn Welsh Regiment CARDIFF PALS metal cap badge. 11th (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) Border Regiment, a Kitchener’s Army unit raised 1914. Border Regiment: 11th (Service) Lonsdale: Penrith, 29 March 1915 Earl of Lonsdale and an Executive Committee: 97th Brigade, 32nd Division: 12th (Reserve) Prees Heath: Depot companies of 11th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment: 12th (Service) 1st South Down Bexhill, 7 September 1914 Lt Col C. Lowther MP and committee 116th Brigade, 39th Division Artefacts at home may provide useful clues. Soldier In 11th Border Regiment (Lonsdales) Books Available Border Regiment in the Great War Soldiers Who Died in the Great War The Border Regiment Officers Died in the Great War 1914-1919. The Border Regiment. The 1st Battalion, Border Regiment formed part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in Europe from 1939–1940, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Horton Farrar. J.R. Gaunt, London tablet to reverse which bears two loops. In WW1 alone some 45,000 men served. WW1 The Border Regiment 11th Lonsdale Battalion Cap Badge Original. The Lonsdale Battalion, 11th (Service) Battalion of the Border Regiment Timeline and Chronology – September 1914 to July 1918 Introduction This timeline from September 1914 to 23 November 1915 is drawn from archive material within the collection of the Lowther Family (reference DLONS) held at … Border Regiment during WW2 WW2 Battalions of the Border Regiment 1st Battalion: For example, First World War medals ... 11th battalion Border Regiment. There was, however, much entertainment watching the aircraft of both sides fighting their own separate war. £200.00 + £2.50 P&P. 01.09.1916 Absorbed into the 75th Training Reserve Battalion. In May 1915 the Battalion moved to Prees Health Camp (Shropshire) and was attached to … On 30th April, the battalion relieved the 6th Border Regiment from their front duties, again without incident. £4.95 + £1.75 P&P. The 11th Border Regiment was a service battalion formed at Penrith (HQ), Carlisle, Kendal and Workington by the 5th Earl of Lonsdale and an Executive Committee using the Earls private funds. 1st May was bright and fine with very little trench activity from either side.