Theatres of War - WWI - Loos (1915)
Below is some information on the battle of Loos. Were your ancestors part of the battle? It also includes the regiments involved in battle of Loos with some suggested websites that may be of interest in researching your ancestors or genealogy in general.
Theatres of War, Army Regiments, Naval Detachments, RAF
Description: The battle of Loos was fought between the German empire and an alliance of Britain and Indian forces in September 1915. It took place north of the Loos in northern France. It was one of the first major British offensives of the war and the first use of poison gas by them also. However, the Germans hid underground in concrete bunkers. Initial artillery bombardments and chlorine gas attacks were partially successful with some gas blowing back into British trenches. The British broke German trenches in the first attacks, capturing the town of Loos. Walking straight across fields in full view of the enemy and often through clouds of gas left British troops severely depleted. Combined with supply issues the Germans were able to push them back to their starting positions. Casualties and losses for the British are thought to be about 50,000.
Infantry regiments involved:
- Grenadier Guards (1st Foot Guards)
- Coldstream Guards (2nd Foot Guards)
- Scots Guards (3rd Foot Guards)
- Welsh Guards
- Irish Guards
- Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (91st & 93rd Highlanders)
- Bedfordshire (16th)
- Black Watch (42nd & 73rd Highlanders)
- Border (55th)
- City of London (7th)
- Devonshire (11th)
- Dorsetshire (39th & 54th)
- Durham Light Infantry (68th & 106th)
- East Yorkshire (15th)
- Essex (44th & 56th)
- Gloucestershire (28th & 61st)
- Gordon Highlanders (75th & 92nd)
- Hampshire (37th & 67th)
- Highland Light Infantry (71st & 74th)
- King's Liverpool (8th)
- King's Own Royal Lancaster (4th)
- King's Own Scottish Borderers (25th)
- King's Own Yorkshire Infantry
- King's Royal Rifle Corps (60th)
- King's Shropshire Light Infantry (53rd & 85th)
- Leicestershire (17th)
- Lincolnshire (10th)
- Lothian (Royal Scots) (1st)
- Loyal North Lancashire (47th & 81st)
- Manchester (63rd & 96th)
- Middlesex (57th & 77th)
- Northamptonshire (48th & 58th)
- Northumberland (5th)
- Ox and Bucks Light Infantry (43rd & 52nd)
- Prince Albert Light Infantry Somersetshire (13th)
- Prince of Wales South Staffordshire (64th & 98th)
- Princess Charlotte of Wales's Berkshire (49th & 66th)
- Princess of Wales's North Yorkshire (19th)
- Princess Victoria's Royal Irish Fusiliers (87th & 89th)
- Queen's Royal West Surrey (2nd)
- Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (27th & 108th)
- Royal Irish (18th)
- Royal Irish Rifles (83rd & 86th)
- Royal Munster Fusiliers (102nd & 103rd)
- Royal Scots Fusiliers (21st)
- Royal Sussex (35th & 107th)
- Royal Warwickshire (6th)
- Royal Welsh Fusiliers (23rd)
- Scotch Rifles (Cameronians) (28th & 90th)
- Seaforth Highlanders (72nd & 78th)
- South Lancashire (40th & 82nd)
- South Wales Borderers (24th)
- Suffolk (12th)
- Welsh (41st & 69th)
- West Yorkshire (14th)
- Wiltshire (62nd & 99th)
- Worcestershire (29th & 36th )
- York and Lancaster (65th & 84th)
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