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TO
THE MEMORY
OF THE 55th
WEST LANCASHIRE
DIVISION
1914-1918
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SOMME 1916
YPRES 1916-17
CAMBRAI 1917
GIVENCHY-FESTUBERT 1918
THE ADVANCE IN FLANDERS 1918
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UNITS OF THE WEST LANCASHIRE DIVISION TERRITORIAL FORCE WHICH
WAS FORMED IN 1908, FOUGHT IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM FROM
NOVEMBER 1914 ONWARDS, ON 3TH JANUARY 1916 IT WAS RE-ASSEMBLED
AS THE 55TH (WEST-LANCASHIRE) DIVISION AND SERVED
UNDER THAT TITLE THROUGHOUT THE REMAINDER OF
THE CAMPAIGN
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AROUND THIS SITE FROM THE 9TH TO THE 16TH APRIL 1918 THE DIVISION
CONTINUOUSLY ATTACKED FROM THE CANAL TO FESTUBERT BY THREE
GERMAN DIVISIONS AND WITH ITS LEFT FLANK TURNED, HELD ITS GROUND
AND INFLICTED SEVERE LOSS UPON THE ENEMY
...." THIS MOST GALLANT DEFENCE, THE IMPORTANCE OF WHICH
IT WOULD BE HARD TO OVERESTIMATE"...
SIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S DESPATCH DATED 20-7-18
1914-18
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