Catalogue description 8TH (SERVICE) BATTALION

This Battalion was raised in 1914, and formed part of 55th Brigade, 18th Division. It embarked for France in Jul 1915. It fought on the Western Front throughout the war, including at the Battle of the Somme, at the start of which members of B Company famously dribbled footballs across no man's land. The Battalion was disbanded in Jun 1919.

For photographs of the battalion on the Western Front, 1917, see ESR/1/12/14.