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Men of 6th Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment, Cambrin, February 1918

Photograph, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), 1918.

The 6th (Service) Battalion was raised at Pontefract in Yorkshire in August 1914. It arrived on the Western Front in July 1916 with 11th (Northern) Division. During the war the York and Lancaster Regiment raised 22 battalions, suffering over 48,000 casualties out of the 57,000 men who served. 8,800 of the latter were killed.

One of 193 British and Allied official photographs.

NAM Accession Number

NAM. 2007-03-7-80

Copyright/Ownership

National Army Museum, Out of Copyright

Location

National Army Museum, Study collection

Object URL

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2007-03-7-80