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
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
The East Lancashire Royal Engineers was a Volunteer unit of Britain's Royal Engineers raised in Manchester in 1901. It became the engineer component of the 42nd Division of the Territorial Force, seei
RE cap badge and TF East Lancs RE shoulder title
Royal Engineers laying a Pontoon bridge during the German retreat, March 1917.
A Royal Engineers Signal Company at work on the Western Front.
British motorcycle despatch rider in France.