The 12th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment was a 'Bantam' infantry unit recruited as part of 'Kitchener's Army' in World War I. It was raised in the summer of 1915 and served on the Western Front from June
Cap badge of the Suffolk Regiment
Alfred Leete's recruitment poster for Kitchener's Army.
The Church, Péronne, by Sir William Orpen.
The German breakthrough to the Lys, 9 April 1918.
The 21st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment was an infantry unit recruited as part of 'Kitchener's Army' in World War I. It was raised in the spring of 1915 by the Mayor and Borough of Islington in North L
12th (Service) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment (East Anglian)
…121st Bde consisted of two bantam battalions, 12th Suffolks and 13th Green Howards, and two regulation height 'Pals' battalions, 20th (Shoreditch) and 21st (Islington) Bns, Middlesex Regiment. Major Theodore Eardley-Wilmot, a regular officer of the York and Lancaster Regiment who had been wounded at the Second Battle…
Cap badge of the Middlesex Regiment