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Unit / Ship / Establishment:
2/Dorset Regiment
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| "2nd Battalion August 1914 : in Poona, India. Part of 16th Indian Brigade in Poona Division. 6 November 1914 : landed in Fao, Persian Gulf, for campaign in Mesopotamia, as part of Indian Expeditionary Force 'D'. 29 April 1916 : Bn captured at Kut-el-Amara. During the siege at Kut, a composite battalion, composed of returned wounded and other details from the 2nd Dorsets and 2nd Norfolks, was formed at El Orah. It was called the ""Norsets"" and was attached to 21st Indian Brigade, 7th Indian Division. It was broken up on 21 July 1916 and the 2nd Dorsets re-established. It transferred to 9th Indian Brigade, 3rd Indian Division in January 1917 and moved to Egypt in April 1918. " |
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