1st / 8th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers

Mudros, Egypt

On the 4th August 1916, the 1/8th moved by train from Kantara to Pelusium, leaving one Company to return as escort to some 700 Turkish prisoners, part of the 2,000 who had been taken prisoner that day.

Joe. 3rd Nov 2010


Christmas Card purchased on Ebay by Joe Eastwood.

In Memoriam


Private MIDGLEY, HAROLD

Service Number 325117

Died 04/09/1917

Aged 19

1st/8th Bn.
Lancashire Fusiliers

Son of Fred and Eva Midgley, of 3, Keighley Rd., Pecket Well, Hebden Bridge, Yorks.

Recorded in Wadsworth (West Yorkshire) Roll of Honour.
Private 325117, 1/8th Btn. LF, killed in action 4.9.1917, age 19. From Pecket Well, near Hebden Bridge. Unmarried. Member of Methodist chapel choir and Sunday school teacher. Enlisted in Cycle Corps Feb 1917, transferred to LF in July. Killed at Ypres.
Buried in Aeroplane Cemetery, Belgium.


Died on 06/06/1915
Private Thomas Emery
Lance Corporal Fred Tetlow
1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers

Another two Middleton lads died today at Gallipoli, rather than the 1/6th, these two were in the 1/8th, which was raised in Salford, most probably the 1/8th were undermanned and were transferred from the 1/6th.
It was still the Third Battle of Krithia, but where it was the 1/6th who attacked on the 4/5th June, it was the 1/8th turn to try and take the Turkish trenches.

Lance Corporal Fred Tetlow, of the 1/8th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, was killed in action at the Dardanelles, on June 6th, 1915. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Tetlow, Suffield Street, Middleton. This young soldier who was only 25 years of age, had been in the Territorials about six years. He was mobilised early in the war, at which time he was engaged at the Fire Station.

Another two Middleton men who have no known grave, and are commemorated on the Helles Memorial.