Unit / Ship / Establishment:


2nd Battalion The Norfolk Regiment

  Detail :

 2nd Battalion August 1914 : in Bombay in India. Part of 18th (Belgaum) Brigade, 6th (Poona) Division of Indian Army. Moved to Mesopotamia, landing 15 November 1914. 29 April 1916: battalion captured after being besieged at Kut-al-Amara. Details and transport that had not been at Kut joined similar detachments of the 2nd Dorset and formed a composite battalion, named the Norsets. This was broken up on 21 July 1916, as the battalion had been reconsituted by the arrival of new drafts. February 1917: transferred to 37th Brigade in 14th Indian Division. Remained in Mesopotamia.

  Notes:

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 Rank Initials Surname Died Lodge
 W.O.1 (RSM) A.D. SEMMENCE  14-04-1915 Inhabitants No.153
Skelmersdale No.1729
 2Lt R.A. WYNN  14-04-1915 Quetta No.2333
United Brethren No.1923

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