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Finsbury Rifles in Gallipoli: 15 November to 21 November
Date: 15.11.1915 Battalion relieved at dawn by Suffolk Yeomanry. Rest camp shelled by 5 howitser about midday and one man wounded. Day and night otherwise quiet. 5 men to hospital. Routine parades and inspections. Date: 16.11.1915 A few shells burst during day over camp but no damage done. Parades and…
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Finsbury Rifles in Gallipoli: 8 November to 14 November
Date: 8.11.1915 Quiet day and night. Routine parades as usual. No men to hospital. Weather during past few days very fine. Practise alarm at 2030. Date: 9.11.1915 Uneventful day and night. Orders received for relief of Suffolk Yeomanry in new Centre Sector on following day. Trenches visited by officers in…
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Boy Soldiers: voices from the Great War
Boy Soldiers: voices from the Great War, is a short film, commissioned by the Museum of London which tries to imagine some of the experiences of boy soldiers in the trenches. No one aged under 18 should have been able to sign up, yet we know that over 250,000 boys…
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Finsbury Rifles in Gallipoli: 1 November to 7 November
Date: 1.11.1915 Day quiet until about 1600 when during shelling of Franklin’s Post a few shells came very low over right of our line bursting about 100 yards behind trenches. Night uneventful nil report from patrol. 2 men to hospital, routine as usual. Date: 2.11.1915 Quiet day, a few shells…
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October: we remember
Using data from census records, war graves and war memorials we can begin to discover the names of those from the historic boroughs of Finsbury and Islington who died at Gallipoli. In October we remember the death of: Finsbury Rifles 01/10/1915 Lance Corporal William George Kearns 5 Brewery Rd., Caledonian…
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Finsbury Rifles in Gallipoli: 26 October to 31 October
Location: AGHYL DERE (Anzac) Troops of the 3/11th Battalion, London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles) at the rifle instruction, October 1915 © IWM (Q 53824) Date: 26.10.15 Battalion relieved by Suffolk Yeomanry at 09.00. Remainder of day spent on improving new camp. Neighbourhood shelled in afternoon but more burst actually in lines. Lt…
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Finsbury Rifles in Gallipoli: 19 October to 25 October
Location: AGHYL DERE (Anzac) Date: 19.10.15 Battalion relieved at dawn by 1/5 Beds and retired to Bivouac ? during previous rest. Orders received to take over in 2 days time new Centre-?-Section firing line. New trenches inspected by CO. Two men wounded slightly while cleaning new rest camp. 5 men…
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Learning through Gallipoli
In 2015/16 Islington Museum received funding from the Gallipoli Centenary Education Project to tell the stories of those men who travelled from Islington to Mudros to fight in the disastrous Gallipoli campaign. Five local primaries, Ashmount, Copenhagen, Drayton Park, Newington Green and Tufnell Park, worked with musicians Jonathan Rees and Firat Derat…
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The Great War – Through a London Child’s Eye
It’s present day London and three school-friends, Chris, Poppy and Alesha, are helping clear out a cupboard at school when they discover a very dusty box! Underneath many novels and loose papers, they find an old book at the bottom with “The Private Diary of Edward Hampton” written on the cover and…
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Finsbury Rifles in Gallipoli: 12 October to 18 October
Location: AGHYL DERE (Anzac) Date: 12.10.15 13 men returned from Mudros. Orders received to relieve 1/5th Beds following day. Fatigues as before. 13 men to hospital. Date: 13.10.15 Battalion paraded before dawn and proceeded to relief of 1/5th Beds in firing lines. Relief completed by 06.30. At about 10.00 B…
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