(Prior to becoming the Lancashire Fusiliers the Regiment had been known as the 20th Regiment of Foot often recorded in Roman numerals as: XX Foot. Lancashire Fusiliers often referred to themselves as 'Two Tens' and the old timers still do today).
25 April 1915
World War I – Gallipoli
Lancashire Landing
1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
3 Companies, 1,029 men
1 mission - W Beach
4:00 a.m. ship transfer
32 cutter boats
50 yards apart
5:00 a.m. closing in
6:00 a.m. Helles unleashed
200 yards from shore
3 sides of hate
100s cut down
0 chance of escape
24 hours later
320 hearts beating
700 men dead or bleeding
25 April 2015
Gallipoli Campaign Centenary
Lancashire Remembers
1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
Cuthbert Bromley 36
John Grimshaw 22
William Keneally 28
Alfred Richards 35
Frank Stubbs 27
Richard Willis 38
and 1,023 fellow Fusiliers
6 VCs before breakfast
3 Fusiliers gazetted in 1915
2 years of campaigning
3 Fusiliers gazetted in 1917
100 years ago
The Two Tens
Stood to and counted.
© Shirley-Anne Kennedy 2015
