6th (Service) Battalion Border Regiment: Difference between revisions

| title =6th Border Regiment<br>6 (East Cumberland) Battalion

| image =[[File:6th Border Regiment Officers, Egypt 1916.jpg|center|310px290px]]

| caption =Officers of the Battalion in Egypt, 1916

| active formed=[[25 August]] [[1914]]— - [[9 February]] [[1918]]<br>[[12 July]] [[1939]]— - [[15 August]] [[1944]]

| type =<u>'''First World War'''</u>:<br>Service Battalion <brsmall><u>'''Second World War'''(WW1)</usmall>:<br>2nd Line Territorial Army <small>(WW2)</small>

| motto =''Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense'' —<br>Evil be to Him who Evil Thinks

| disbandment disbanded=[[9 February]] [[1918]] at Malingarbe<ref>Officers and other ranks were absorbed into the 1st, 7th, 8th and 11th Battalions of the Regiment.</ref>

|notes=}}

The '''6th (Service) Battalion The Border Regiment''' was formed at Carlisle in August 1914 as part of [[Glossary:Kitchener's Army|Kitchener's]] [[Glossary:K1|K1]] and attached to 33rd Brigade subordinate to the [[11th (Northern) Division]]. The battalion moved from Cumbria to Belton Park (Grantham) and then to Frensham in April 1915 (training). It sailed with other 11th Division units from Liverpool on 1 July 1915 for Gallipoli, landing at Helles 20 July and was complete at Suvla Bay by August 1915. They were operational at Suvla Bay from August 1915 till December 1915 - moved from Gallipoli and spent Christmas at Mudros on Lemnos. The battalion was then withdrawn to Egypt January 1916 (Suez Canal protection duties).

The battalion was disbanded at Mazingarbe in France on [[9 February]] [[1918]].

=== Further action of the Battalion (1915-1918) ===

===Battalion war diary===

:'' Main project page: [[Portal:Battalion_War_Diaries_(The_Border_Regiment)|BattalionBorder warRegiment diariesWar (Border Regiment)Diaries]]''

The aim of transcribing the war diary is to include as much of the original character as possible. This does include some incorrect spelling and infrequent punctuation to remain in keeping with our aims of the project. Each transcript includes a place, date, hour and summary column in a basic table format indicating the battalion, month and year in the title. ItPlease should be notednote that the National Archives hold the copyright of the scanned images. However, transcripts of unpublished Crown Copyright war diaries from the First World War can be used in any type of media such as websites and books providing they conform to certain conditions. The National Archives state:<br> "You are free to transcribe, translate, index and quote from published or unpublished Crown copyright material among the records as extensively as you wish and you may publish the results in any format and any medium: in accordance with the terms of the Open Government Licence." With this in mind each transcript will state: "{{OGLicence}}"

===Roll of Honour===

The 6th Battalion World War One casualty list has been compiled using the publication ''[[Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19:, Volume 39, The Border Regiment]]'' and cross-referenced with the ''[[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]]'' database. The number of casualties compiled to date does not necessarily reflect the total number of casualties for this battalion due to the possibility of missed names and the (current) exclusion of officers and other ranks that were attached to the Border Regiment. This listing is a work-in-progress.

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