The 20th 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 Shoreditch in the Ea
Cap badge of the Middlesex Regiment
Alfred Leete's recruitment poster for Kitchener's Army.
Shoreditch Town Hall, first headquarters of the battalion
The Church, Péronne, by Sir William Orpen.
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
20th (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (Shoreditch)
…gaps being filled by the normal height battalions of 118th Bde. 20th and 21st Middlesex were transferred to 121st Bde to serve alongside the Bantams of 12th Suffolk Regiment (East Anglian) (which had just absorbed the 22nd Middlesex) and the 13th Green Howards. 20th Middlesex marched to join the brigade at Pirbright Camp on 3 April. This…
Cap badge of the Suffolk Regiment
The German breakthrough to the Lys, 9 April 1918.