The 126th Brigade was an infantry brigade of the British Army during the First World War and the Second World War. It was assigned to the 42nd Division and served in the Middle East and on the Western
Captain Harold Marcus-Ervine Andrews VC.
The 42nd Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army. The division was raised in 1908 as part of the Territorial Force, originally as the East Lancashire Division, and was redesigna
126th (East Lancashire) Brigade
…126th (East Lancashire) Brigade was an infantry brigade of the British Army during the First World War and the Second World War. It was assigned to the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division and served in the Middle East and on the Western Front in the Great War. In the Second World War, now as the 126th Infantry Brigade, it served again…
A boat carrying Lancashire Fusiliers, bound for Gallipoli. Photo by Ernest Brooks.
Tommies of the 1/6th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, advancing over open terrain during the Third Battle of Krithia, June 1915.
Trench message dog of 10th Manchesters waits while message is written, Cuinchy, 26 January 1918
Men of the 4th East Lancs at a sap-head, Givenchy, 28 January 1918