World War I
In common with other infantry regiments, the Border Regiment was increased in size for the duration of the 1914-1918 war by the creation of additional battalions, either by the duplication of the existing territorial units or by the raising of new "service" battalions.
| Battalion | Service |
|---|---|
| 1st Battalion | Began war in Burma, moved to England in 1915. Took part in Gallipoli Campaign in 1915-1916, on Western Front from 1916. |
| 2nd Battalion | On Western Front from October 1914. In November 1917 moved to the Italian Front. |
| 3rd (Reserve) Battalion | Remained in United Kingdom as training unit. |
| 1/4th (Cumberland and Westmorland) Battalion | 4th Battalion mobilised August 1914, redesignated 1/4th on formation of duplicate 2/4th Battalion in September 1914. In India from September 1914. |
| 2/4th (Cumberland and Westmorland) Battalion | Formed September 1914. In India from March 1915. |
| 3/4th (Cumberland and Westmorland) Battalion | Formed in March 1915, remained in United Kingdom as training and reserve unit. |
| 1/5th (Cumberland) Battalion | 5th Battalion mobilised in August 1914, redesignated 1/5th on formation of duplicate 2/5th Battalion in October 1914. On Western Front from October 1914. |
| 2/5th (Cumberland) Battalion | Formed October 1914. Remained in United Kingdom and in November 1915 moved to Scotland where it was disbanded, with men drafted into the Royal Scots Fusiliers. |
| 3/5th (Cumberland) Battalion | Formed in March 1915, remained in United Kingdom as training and reserve unit, absorbed by 3/4th Battalion in September 1916. |
| 6th (Service) Battalion | Raised August 1914. Took part in Gallipoli Campaign 1915 - 1916, on Western Front from 1916. Disbanded February 1918. |
| 7th (Service) Battalion | Raised September 1914. On Western Front from 1915. In September 1917 absorbed the dismounted Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry and renamed 7th (Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry) Battalion. |
| 8th (Service) Battalion | Raised September 1914. On Western Front from September 1915. Disbanded July 1918. |
| 9th (Service) Battalion | Raised September 1914. In February 1915 converted to Pioneers. On Western Front from September - November 1915, Macedonian Front from November 1915. |
| 10th (Service) Battalion | Raised October 1914. Remained in United Kingdom and became a reserve battalion in April 1915. Absorbed into Training Reserve in September 1916. |
| 11th (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) | "Lonsdale Pals" Battalion raised September 1914 by an executive committee headed by the Earl of Lonsdale. Adopted by War Office as 11th Battalion August 1915. On Western Front from November 1915. Reduced to cadre May 1918, absorbed by 1/5th Battalion July 1918. |
| 12th (Reserve) Battalion | Formed 1915, absorbed by Training Reserve September 1916. |
| 13th (Service) Battalion | Raised in June 1918. Did not leave United Kingdom and was absorbed by 11th Battalion Hampshire Regiment in the same month. |
Read more about this topic: Border Regiment
Famous quotes containing the words war i, world and/or war:
“I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went or you didn’t, but the fact of it and the decisions it forced us to make marked us for the rest of our lives, just as the depression and World War II had marked my parents.”
—Linda Grant (b. 1949)
“It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
“Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother’s nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy of the Lord Jesus had never entered her heart. Her piety was an act of war against Protestant ascendancy. ...The teachings of the Church did not interest her, except as they were a rebuke to others ...”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)