Tag: Local History
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Finsbury Rifles in Gallipoli: 1 September to 7 September
Location: AGHYL DERE (Anzac) Date: 01.09.15 Very uneventful day. Second line positions inspected by C.O. Experimental bathing parade returned without incident. Digging continued at dusk but interrupted about midnight by heavy firing all along the front line. Date: 02.09.15 Quiet day. Numerous bathing parades return without casualties. Digging continued at…
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August: we remember
Using data from census records, war graves and war memorials we can begin to discover the names of those Finsbury Rifles from the historic boroughs of Finsbury and Islington who died at Gallipoli. The attacks on the Finsbury Rifles in August 1915 seem to have been particularly devastating for our…
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Islington Daily Gazette and North London Tribune
Reading the Islington Daily Gazette and North London Tribune helps us to understand how the war was reported at home in Finsbury and Islington. It makes harrowing reading as we discover how little of the Finsbury Rifles’ suffering in Gallipoli is reported at home. Islington Daily Gazette and North London…
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Finsbury Rifles in Gallipoli: 29 August to 31 August
Location: AGHYL DERE Date: 29.8.15 Several men wounded by machine gun in early morning. Day otherwise uneventual and spent in fatigues and improving bivouac. Digging parties provided during night to link up right and left sections of fire-trenches occupied by 1/5th Bedfordshire to whom the battalion is being held in…
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Finsbury Rifles in Gallipoli: 22 August to 28 August
Location: SUVLA Date: 22 August 15 Orders received that battalion would be relieved during day by part of 29th Division. In the meanwhile to be still prepared to take part in any general advance. A quiet day. Battalion not called upon to move. Just before midnight relieved by 5th Royal…
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Finsbury Rifles in Gallipoli: 17 August to 21 August
Location: SUVLA (Lone Tree Gully) Date: 17 August 15 Quiet day in trenches. Reinforcing draft under Capt Collins arrived. Effort made to get companies reorganised and men of the battalion withdrawn as far as possible from other battalion trenches. Date: 18 August 15 Quiet day in trenches. Shelling and sniping…
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Finsbury Rifles in Gallipoli: 15 & 16 August
Location: SUVLA Date: 15 August 1915 Party returned to camp 4.30am. Position held by Lieutenant Fox and 80 men. Battalion moved out of camp 12.30pm and deployed on a position 1 ½ miles E by NE of camp. Thence advanced under distant rifle fire on the position previously entrenched. From…
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Finsbury Rifles in Gallipoli: 10 August to 14 August
Location: SUVLA BAY Date: 10 August 1915 Hour: 1pm Started for Suvla Bay arriving 3pm, disembarked 5pm, proceeded at 9pm with 163rd Brigade two miles due north. Then placed in reserve. Date: 11 August 1915 Moved one mile east and remained in reserve. Slight shelling by…
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Finsbury Rifles in Gallipoli: 6 August to 9 August
Location: HMTS AQUITANIA Date: 6 August 1915 Arrived Mudros Bay. Lemnos Isle. Date: 7 August 1915 Parades as usual for gymnastics. Ship remains in harbour. Date: 8 August 1915 Orders received for all troops Aquitania to hold themselves in readiness to proceed to the Isle of Imbros. Date: 9 August…
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Filming ‘through the hole in the wall’ in Milner Square.
The film crew and interviewees spent the first sweltering week of July filming the documentary in Milner Square and other locations. Some current residents kindly allowed the film crew access into their homes to film some of the scenes. Eight former residents were filmed being interviewed in the square and…
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