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In December 1915 the 3rd Battalion was evacuated from the Gallipoli peninsula and withdrawn to Egypt again, where it took part in the defence of the Suez Canal before being sent to France to fight on the Western Front in March 1916.
Oct 2, 2018 · The 3rd Battalion was raised at Liverpool (SW of Sydney). Its men were drawn from southern NSW - Goulburn, Yass and down to Albury and across to Hay in the West. It departed Australia in October 1914.
The battalion returned to Canada from England on the SS Olympic arriving in Halifax on 21 April 1919, then in Toronto by train and demobilizing in the afternoon of 23 April 1919. Only 40 of the original contingent from 1914 arrived back at the end of the war although others had been demobilized or taken prisoners of war.
Third Battalion Headquarters and the Seventh Co. were held at Genicourt three days longer. May 14th they sailed in company with the Sixth Battalion, on the Santa Paula; they landed at New York May 28th and were disbanded at Camp Merrit.
The Lost Battalion is the name given to the nine companies of the US 77th Division, roughly 554 men, isolated by German forces during World War I after an American attack in the Argonne Forest in October 1918.
3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade were at Cork serving with 17th Brigade in 6th Division when war was declared in August 1914. They mobilised to England and moved to Cambridge then swiftly on to Newmarket. They proceeded to France on the 12th of September 1914 landing at St Nazaire.
Oct 7, 2018 · Survivors of the famous Lost Battalion march up New York's Fifth Avenue just past the Arch of Victory during the spring of 1919. ... dropped most of the supplies out of reach due to erroneous ...
