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C . R . TRA I N REG I STER
STRENGTHS OF 1/7RS MAY 1915 – JANUARY 1916
22 May
Entrained Larbert 31 Officers 1026 ORs Total 1057
23 May
Embarked Liverpool 20 Officers
477 ORs After Quintinshill
12 Jun
Landed Gallipoli
18 Officers
458 ORs
15 Jul
After Gully Ravine 6 Officers
169 ORs
22 Jan ‘16
In Egypt
20 Officers
336 ORs Total 356
The Battalion left Mudros on 19 January for Alexandria, in Egypt,
arriving there on the 21st, from where it moved inland to Abbassia.
On 25 January the 4RS elements left to reform their own Battalion.
With the 23 Officers and 440 Other Ranks recorded as reinforcements
over the period, 1/7RS’s casualties from departure from Larbert, exactly
eight months earlier, totalled 34 Officers and 1,110 ORs or 108% of the
entrained strength.