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List of Northumberland Fusiliers battalions in World War I information


Men of the Northumberland Fusiliers in a reserve trench at Thiepval, during the Battle of the Somme, September 1916.

This is a list of Northumberland Fusiliers battalions in World War I. When the First World War broke out in August 1914, the Northumberland Fusiliers, a fusilier infantry regiment of the British Army, consisted of 7 battalions, eventually expanding to 52 battalions, although not all existed at the same time,[1][a] of which 29 served overseas.[4][b] It was the second largest infantry regiment of the British Army during World War I, surpassed only by the 88 battalions of the London Regiment.[5][6]

The Northumberland Fusiliers earned 67 battle honours and was awarded five Victoria Crosses,[c] but at the cost of over 16,000 soldiers killed in action, and many thousands wounded.[7] The Northumberland Fusiliers mostly saw action in the main theatre of war, engaged in static trench warfare on the Western Front in Belgium and France, but also participated in fighting on the Macedonian front, the Gallipoli Campaign, the Sinai and Palestine Campaign and the Italian Front.

  1. ^ "The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers at regiments.org by T.F.Mills". Archived from the original on 15 July 2007. Retrieved 17 July 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ James 1978, Table B, Appendix I to Part II
  3. ^ James 1978, p. 47
  4. ^ a b "Medals of the Regiments: The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers". North East Medals. 2007. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  5. ^ Haythornthwaite 1996, p. 219
  6. ^ James 1978, Table C, Appendix I to Part II
  7. ^ James 1978, p. 136


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