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were not liable for overseas service without their consent), with the men who, for various reasons, were unwilling or unable being posted to the 2/4th
Battalion, with the original Hallamshire Battalion being redesignated the 1/4th Battalion. After months of training, in April 1915 the battalion was
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which was supposedly undefended on the western bank. They advanced across open ground without artillery support to find strongly defended enemy positions. They achieved their objective but with only 4 officers and 240 men present of the 20 officers and 600 men who had started the advance. The war
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Hallamshire Battalion remained in Germany after the war, returning home in 1946, when, after merging with the 6th Battalion, it was disbanded, only to be reformed in 1947. In 1950 the battalion was converted into a
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role. The 6th
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Battalion, of supplying drafts of replacements to the 1/4th and 2/4th Battalions, and moved to
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on 21 September 1914, composed mainly of officers and men who, for various reasons, had chosen not to volunteer for
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