Regimental Timeline

The East Surrey Regiment

The Great War: 1916

1916
  The East Surrey Regiment

 

1st Battalion

January - June

In trenches, Arras sector.

July

Battle of the Somme.

August

Delville Wood.

 

Battle of Guillemont; Leuze Wood.

 

Battle of Morval.

 

2nd Battalion

 

Operations in the Struma Valley, Macedonia, between Lake Butkovo and Lake Tahinos.

Special Reserve

 

3rd Battalion

 

Home service.

 

4th Battalion

 

Home service.

Territorial Force

 

1st/5th Battalion

 

Nowshera, India.

 

2nd/5th Battalion

 

Home service.

 

3rd/5th Battalion

8th April

Redesignated as 5th (Reserve) Battalion.

 

5th (Reserve) Battalion

 

Home Service.

September

Absorbs 6th (Reserve) Battalion.

 

1st/6th Battalion

 

Rawalpindi, India.

 

2nd/6th Battalion

 

Home service.

 

3rd/6th Battalion

 

Home service.

8th April

Redesignated as 6th (Reserve) Battalion.

 

6th (Reserve) Battalion

September

Absorbed into 5th (Reserve) Battalion and disbanded.

 

1st/21st (County of London) Battalion,
The London Regiment (1st Surrey Rifles)

7th July

Transferred to the Corps of the East Surrey Regiment.

 

2nd/21st (County of London) Battalion,
The London Regiment (1st Surrey Rifles)

March - May

Vimy Ridge.

7th July

Transferred to the Corps of The East Surrey Regiment.

15th September

Battle of High Wood.

14th October

Battle of Butte de Warlencourt.

 

3rd/21st (County of London) Battalion,
The London Regiment (1st Surrey Rifles)

4th April

Redesignated 21st (Reserve) (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment.

 

21st (Reserve) (County of London) Battalion,
The London Regiment.

7th July

Transferred to the Corps of The East Surrey Regiment. Home Service.

1st September

Absorbs 23rd (Reserve) Battalion.

 

23rd (County of London) Battalion,
The London Regiment

4th August

Battalion embodied.

 

1st/23rd (County of London) Battalion,
The London Regiment

 

Vimy Ridge.

 

Transferred to the Corps of The East Surrey Regiment.

 

2nd/23rd (County of London) Battalion,
The London Regiment

 

To France.

 

1st/23rd (County of London) Battalion,
The London Regiment

 

Vimy Ridge.

 

Transferred to the Corps of The East Surrey Regiment.

 

2nd/23rd (County of London) Battalion,
The London Regiment

 

To France.

7th July

Transferred to the Corps of The East Surrey Regiment.

 

3rd/23rd (County of London) Battalion,
The London Regiment

8th April

Home Service. Redesignated as 23rd (Reserve) (County of London) Battalion The London Regiment.

7th July

Transferred to the Corps of The East Surrey Regiment.

1st September

Absorbed into 21st Reserve Battalion and disbanded.

Service Battalions

 

7th Battalion

 

Defence of the Hohenzollern redoubt.

April

In reserve.

June

Moves to Albert.

July

Battle of the Somme.

 

Battle of Albert – Ovillers.

 

Pozières Ridge.

August

In trenches at Arras.

September

Battle of Le Transloy Ridges.

 

Gueudecourt.

 

8th Battalion

 

In trenches, Carnoy.

1st July

Battle of the Somme. B Company (Captain WP Neville) attacks at Albert kicking footballs. (Montauban).

On through the hail of slaughter,
Where gallant comrades fall,
Where blood is poured like water,
They drive the trickling ball. The fear of death before them,
Is but an empty name;
True to the land that bore them,
The SURREYS played the game.

 

Schwaben redoubt, battle of Thiepval Ridge.

September

Battle of the Ancre.

 

Winter operations on the Ancre.

 

9th Battalion

 

In trenches in Flanders.

July

Battle of the Somme.

 

Attack on Guillemont.

September

Delville Wood.

December

Vimy Ridge.

 

10th (Reserve) Battalion

1st September

Transferred out of the Regiment as 30th Battalion TF Reserve.

 

11th (Reserve) Battalion

1st September

Transferred out of the Regiment as 21st Battalion TF Reserve.

 

12th (Bermondsey) Battalion

 

Moves to France.

May

In trenches, Ploegsteert Wood.

July

Battle of the Somme.

 

Capture of Flers.

October

In trenches, St Eloi.

 

13th (Wandsworth) Battalion

June

Moves to France. In trenches, Lens and Albert.

 

14th (Reserve) Battalion

26th June

Transferred out of the Regiment as 26th Battalion TF Reserve.

 

15th (Reserve) Battalion

 

Home service.

 

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