#middlesex regiment

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Image: IWM (Q 11813) Colonel Baker of the 2nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment with parts of Royal Engineers of the 8th Division who removed the German flag from the prefecture at Douai, 18 October 1918. The Union Jack and the regimental flag of the 2nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment was hoisted in its place. Note the German air-raid shelter notice.

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Sep 8 1914 On the Signy-Signets road, Robert Cotton Money takes this photo, IWM Q 51489, of the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) under shrapnel fire from German artillery. The soldier holding his head has a head wound and is covered in blood. He is wearing googles and belongs to the Intelligence Corps.

September 8 1914-09-08

Colourized by DOUG aka DB Colour who says that “The 1st Btn, Middx Regt, war dairy, shows that artillery fire killed nine horses. 3 men were killed and 30 wounded. The man wounded in the head, may be 2nd Lt Alfred Frederick Sang, who died of his wounds in Nº8 Hospital in Rouen on 2 October 1914.”

The first uncensored ‘action’ shot of the war – the transport column of the 1st Battalion the Middlesex Regiment under shell  re on the high ground south of the River Marne, complete with wounded and bleeding officer – appeared in the new wartime weekly The War Illustrated on 21 November 1914. - Jon Cooksey

The War Illustrated, 21st November, 1914. From the pictorial point of view, modern warfare lacks much which the battlefields of the past provided. Soldiers to-day are fighting enemies on the Continent whom they never see, and in London not a few of the wounded brought home to recuperate lament that they have received their injuries without ever getting a glimpse of those who inflicted them.

 For this reason the great mass of photographs which reach us from the front do not show actual hostilities in progress, but the above is vividly interesting, having been taken by a British officer at the moment when a shell was passing over a high road during the Battle of the Aisne. The alarm of the men and horses is very clearly depicted in their attitudes, and the whole scene conveys to us a remarkable impression of the reality of modern warfare. 

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“Battle of Bailleul. Men of the Middlesex Regiment holding a street barricade in Bailleul, 15 April 1918, just before the fall of the town.“ Taken by photographer John Warwick Brooke.

Source: Imperial War Museum.

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A British soldier of the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, prepares to open fire with his Bren gun.

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Bicycle Section of 3rd Middlesex Regiment stationed in Singapore.

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Image: IWM (Q 9057) Brigadier-General James Heriot-Maitland, the Commander of the 98th Infantry Brigade (33rd Division) with officers of the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Near Cassel, 25 April 1918. Lieutenant-Colonel John Hamilton Hall, the CO of the Battalion, is second from the left.

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Second Lieutenant James Lindsay Sutherland, 23rd Battalion Middlesex Regiment, December 1915

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Officers of the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, attending to a wounded runner who had just delivered a message to battle headquarters. An officer of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders is with the group, Meteren, 16 April 1918.