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1053: 991: 514: 22: 536:. Entrenching Battalions were trained as infantry, but were primarily utilized for manual labour duties such as trench repair, wire laying, road making and assisting tunnellers, pioneers, engineers and signals. The Battalions were also used as pools of men from which drafts of replacements could be drawn by conventional infantry battalions. 589:
being disbanded. Following the disbandment of these infantry battalions in February 1918, the pool of men was used to bring the remaining battalions up to strength, and to allocate any remaining manpower surplus to 25 entrenching battalions. These battalions were put to use in improving the existing
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between July and September 1916 the battalions remaining manpower was absorbed by the Australian Infantry battalions. The 1st Anzac Entrenching Battalion later absorbed the surplus reinforcements for the Australian
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by autumn 1917, due to manpower shortages, but saw a revival at the start of 1918. The reduction in the number of battalions in an infantry brigade (from four to three) resulted in many (under-manned) infantry
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Formed from the 2/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion, the 2/7th and 2/8th (T.F.) Battalions Royal Warwickshire Regiment. These men subsequently joined the 2/4th
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formed the New Zealand Entrenching Group in February 1918. It consisted of three entrenching battalions with the manpower drawn from men of the disbanded
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The entrenching battalions were disbanded in April 1918, with their troops apportioned to infantry battalions to make good the losses suffered following
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at Kew though the 1918 war diaries for the 1st, 6th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 15th and 17th Entrenching Battalions have not survived.
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it was engaged in heavy fighting in the defence of the Crozat Canal, after which it was absorbed into 7th
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Entrenching battalions were first formed in the British Army in July 1916 and were allocated at
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defences in anticipation of a German offensive, and could be used as a reserve force if needed.
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The Battalion appears to have been stationed in Salonika in 1918. The unit was commanded by
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Formed on 20 February 1918 from the battalion headquarters and residue of the disbanded
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Formed from half of the disbanded 6th Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
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Formed from the disbanded 8th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment and 12th Battalion
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of 1918. Many of their war diaries from 1918 have survived and can be consulted at
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formed four entrenching battalions in July 1916, one for each of the respective
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Official History Of The Otago Regiment, N.Z.E.F. in The Great War 1914–1918
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Formed from the 14th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles and 11th Battalion
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and disbanded on the Western Front. The battalion was working under
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Military units and formations of New Zealand in World War I
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12th Entrenching Battalion War Diary, TNA file WO 95/761/5.
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Formed from the 10th and 19th (Service) Battalions of the
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Military units and formations of Australia in World War I
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Officers of the 1st Canadian Entrenching Battalion, 1916
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23rd (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment (8th City)
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Military units and formations of Canada in World War I
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opened. It manned and improved the 'Purple Line' near
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Formed from elements of four disbanded battalions of
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inspecting the 1st New Zealand Entrenching Battalion
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Formed in 1916 and provided a reinforcement pool to
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11th Entrenching Bn War Diary, TNA file WO 95/905/6
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Wilkie & Company. pp. 303–308. 1682: 1639:Royal West Kent Regiment at Long, Long Trail. 1148:The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1916 494: 1953:"The Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1914-1918" 939:Formed from the 11/13th Royal Irish Rifles. 861:Formed from elements of the 18th Battalion 635:Formed from a number of battalion elements. 567:. The battalion was disbanded in late 1917. 563:and worked with the Canadian tunnellers at 1784: 885:Formed from the 10th (Service) Battalion, 825:Formed from the 10th (Service) Battalion, 501: 487: 472:Lists of British Army units and formations 1955:. Battlefields1418.50megs.com. 1916-07-01 1929:"The World War I Message Board (Page 30)" 1501: 1499: 1497: 1495: 1493: 1491: 1047: 799:(4th Salford), 16th (Service) Battalion, 1947: 1945: 1628:Household Battalion at Long, Long Trail. 1167: 1165: 1051: 989: 539: 512: 37:French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1617:Middlesex Regiment at Long, Long Trail. 1195: 1193: 1140: 1138: 521:man a trench during the First World War 2087: 1881:. Freespace.virgin.net. Archived from 1535:. Blaenau-gwent.gov.uk. 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Index

United Kingdom
British Army lists
Armies, corps, and divisions
Generals killed
Awards
Formations during the era
Crimean War divisions
Second Boer War formations
Field armies
Corps
Divisions
Brigades
Reserve Brigades
Provisional battalions
Entrenching battalions
Tunnelling companies
Generals killed
Cavalry generals
Field armies
Corps
Divisions
Brigades
Deception
Royal Armoured Corps regiments
Royal Artillery regiments
Cavalry
Foot
Fencibles
in 1800
in 1881

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