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War Diary A regular army battalion, the 1st Battalion was at Mullingar [Ireland] on the outbreak of war as part of 15th Infantry Brigade, 5th Division; it landed in France on 16 Aug 1914 and remained on the Western Front throughout the war, except for a brief tour of duty in Italy between December 1917 and April 1918. The 5th Division comprised as follows: 13th Infantry Brigade [part of 28th Divison between 23 Feb and 7 Apr 1915 when it was replaced by 84th Infantry Brigade]: 14th (1st Birmingham) Royal Warwickshire Regiment [joined Dec 1915, becoming Divisional Pioneers in Oct 1918]; 15th (2nd Birmingham) Royal Warwickshire Regiment [joined January 1916, disbanded October 1918]; 16th (3rd Birmingham) Royal Warwickshire Regiment [joined October 1918]; 2nd King's Own Scottish Borderers; 2nd Duke of Wellington's Regiment [left brigade January 1916]; 1st Royal West Kent Regiment; 2nd King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry [left the brigade in December 1915]; 1/9th (City of London) London Regiment [joined the brigade in November 1914 and left in February 1915] 14th Infantry Brigade [transferred to 32nd Division on 30 Dec 1915]: 1/9th (Highlanders) Royal Scots [joined November 1915, left December 1915]; 1st Devonshire Regiment [left December 1915]; 2nd Suffolk Regiment [left September 1914]; 1/5th Cheshire Regiment [February 1915 to November 1915]; 2nd Royal Iniskilling Fusiliers [November to December 1915]; 1st East Surrey Regiment [left December 1915]; 1st Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry [left December 1915]; 2nd Manchester Regiment [left December 1915] 15th Infantry Brigade [part of 28th Division 3 Mar to 7 Apr 1915 when replaced by 83rd Infantry Brigade]: 16th Royal Warwickshire Regiment [December 1915 - October 1918]; 1/6th King's (Liverpool) Regiment [February 1915 to November 1915]; 1st Norfolk Regiment; 1st Bedfordshire Regiment; 1st Cheshire Regiment; 1/6th Cheshire Regiment [December 1914 to March 1915]; 1st Dorset Regiment [Aug 1914 - Dec 1915] 95th Infantry Brigade [transferred from 32nd Division on 26 Dec 1915]: 1st Devonshire Regiment [joined January 1916]; 12th (Bristol) Gloucestershire Regiment [December 1915 to October 1918 when disbanded]; 1st East Surrey Regiment [joined January 1916]; 1st Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry [joined January 1916] Pioneers: 1/6th (Renfrewshire) Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders [June 1915 to October 1918]; 1/5th Cheshire Regiment [November 1915 to February 1916]; 14th (1st Birmingham) Royal Warwickshire Regiment [from October 1918]

1914-1919

From: 1914 To: 1919

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