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The Sinai Desert 21

Nieuport and Coast Sector 57

Round about Bapaume 78

Attack on the Hindenburg Line, September 27th, 1918 125

Area covered during advance of 42nd Division, 1918,
_facing_ 143




CHAPTER I.

Holding up the Turk.


In September, 1914, the 7th Bn. Manchester Regiment set out for active
service in the East in goodly company, for they were a part of the 42nd
(East Lancashire) Division, the first territorials to leave these shores
during the Great War. After many interesting days spent on garrison duty
in the Sudan and Lower Egypt they journeyed to Gallipoli soon after the
landing had been effected, and took a continuous part in that ill-fated
campaign until the final evacuation. The beginning of 1916 thus found
them back in Egypt, where they were taking part in General Maxwell's
scheme for the defence of the Suez Canal. The things that befell the