2/4 battalion london regiment

[Guest Aaron Thompson]

Hi can anyone help me with this unit my greatgranddad Arthur Williams served with this ballalion rank sergeant regtl no 281056 he enlisted on 26th oct 1914 enter war in egypt on the 24/8/1915 and i know he served between 24/8/1915 to 8/10/1915, 10/10/1915 to 17/12/1915, 23/12/1915 to 17/4/1916 and 24/4/1916 to 5/3/1919 but don't know where he served any help would be nice thank you.

[Malcolm]

2/4th London were in Royal Naval Division up to end 1915 and then 53rd Division in Med. Broken up in 1916 on the Western Front - where he went after 1916 may be found from any record etc at NA if they exist. See Royal Fusiliers on main site and go to the bottom of the list to London Territorials.

Aye

Malcolm

[Chris_Baker]

Hello Aaron

Welcome to the forum.

Malcolm is quite right, but if you'd like to see the potted history of the battalion that I have on the Long, Long, Trail, click here.

24 August 1915 was when he landed in Egypt

10 October when he went to the Helles area on Gallipoli

23 December 1915 back to Egypt

The few days 'gaps' are when he was on the move.

24 April 1916, it would not surprise me if this was France, and with (or more likely, to join) a different unit as the 2/4th had been broken up. It may be that he was posted to 1/4th.

[Paul Reed]

You might also find this part of my website of use:

http://www.battlefields1418.50megs.com/londons.htm

Clive Harris, another member of the forum, also has some London material on his site at:

http://www.frontlinelondon.com/