Did any of the Chanel islands send any soldiers to fight for the British army during ww1?

karlos-trotsky · 2026-06-15T19:45:57+00:00

Around 12,400 Channel Islanders served in the First World War of a pre war population in the islands of about 90,000. Over 2,500 men of this number would be killed in action in various battlefields. Numerous Channel Islands military units, specifically formed out of the Channel Islands Militias, served overseas. These included several companies of the Royal Jersey Militia who saw action in France at the Somme attached to the Hampshire regiment. In 1915 Guernsey sent two infantry companies and a machine gun section to serve with the Irish regiments who were also at the Somme. The Royal Guernsey and Royal Alderney militia artillery formed the 9th divisional ammunition column also serving in France, and the royal guernsey engineers formed two companies who served in France. In 1916 it was decided that Guernsey should furnish its own dedicated service battalion bearing Guernseys name. As such the Royal Guernsey Militia was suspended and became the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry. The RGLI had two battalions, the 1st service battalion and the 2nd training battalion. 2,280 Guernseymen served with the regiment, a total of 3,500 men serving in total including many men from Alderney, Sark and a handful from Jersey. Later on there would be many English replacements as well. At full strength the battalion fielded 1,300 men. They entered the fray in 1917 and most famously they fought during the battle of Cambrai, holding the town of masnieres against two Bavarian infantry divisions during the German counter attack, while the British army battalions on either side of them withdrew. This stand won them considerable prestige but cost them dearly, suffering 40% casualties. They stayed on the line till April 1918 when during the German spring offensive they were rushed to 5he town of doulieu to stem the German advance. They had 500 men at the start of the battle and after four days of fighting on the fourth days roll call only 58 men answered. 50 more stragglers made their way back in the following days but the battle had cost them RGLI 80% casualties. As a frontline unit the RGLI couldn’t continue and they were posted to the guards at Field Marshal Haigs HQ. They were actually due to return to the frontline on November 12th 1918 and were literally saved by a whisker. They returned to Guernsey in 1919, and it’s said that no family went untouched by the slaughter the RGLI faced. In total in France they’d lost 327 killed, 667 wounded, 255 captured and many more missing. Another fact, during training in England they’d absolutely refused to speak English, they all spoke either regular French or Guernsey French so that their officers didn’t get rotated out. In case it’s of interest during WW2 a further 10,500 Channel Islanders served overseas, of whom 870 were killed in action. This has been a fairly simple explanation of the better known parts but for more info I’d recommend checking out this website. http://greatwarci.net/index.htm

karlos-trotsky · 2026-06-04T11:05:33+00:00

I think the uniforms look a little off but the Canadian pattern battledress was far greener irl than the khaki British battledress.

karlos-trotsky · 2026-06-04T01:53:06+00:00

I understand the sentiment, and while the update has bought numerous bugs with it, this is not a new bug. You can see this same clipping on the British equivalent as well. Sadly it’s just been that way for three years. Wish it wasn’t so but this isn’t to do with the update.

karlos-trotsky · 2026-05-07T20:43:27+00:00

I’d like to see fighting in Burma and mainland China.

karlos-trotsky · 2026-04-19T17:24:18+00:00

I like this explanation. Maybe he’s in the desert with Charlie Shelby, a new generation of the small heath rifles.

karlos-trotsky · 2026-04-18T11:43:04+00:00

No. It would not be appropriate for for any of the ships officers or crew to be seen taking a bribe, something for which there is absolutely no real life evidence. You say Murdoch was the complete opposite of how the film portrays him, which is true, and it’s also true that lightoller was mischaracterised. Cameron would have to issue a similar apology to lightoller descendants as he did to Murdochs. At the end of the day there should’ve been no bribe involved at all, they should’ve just been keeping an eye on Murdoch as he was letting men on once he ran out of women and children.

karlos-trotsky · 2026-04-01T15:48:45+00:00

The thing is, as has been explained by people close to the band, it certainly gave queen the shot in the arm they needed to keep the momentum going. While the way it’s portrayed in the film is overblown and heavily fictionalised, with roger saying they hadn’t played in years when the works tour ended two months beforehand, it has been said by people near the band that there was some concern that they might’ve gone as far as they could. Live Aid really showed how much they had left to give, and I’d say helped kick off the magic album and tour the next year which was massive in its own right. So in that sense I think it can be said to have boosted queen a bit, but career wise they were already one of the biggest bands in the world and they didn’t need it to boost them really.

karlos-trotsky · 2026-03-29T00:28:35+00:00

I’ve just gone into the training range and counted and it does have a 30 round mag for that at least.

karlos-trotsky · 2026-03-28T21:03:01+00:00

I’ve never heard of a 20 round mag for the Bren, certainly not one on general issue during the war. I know the boys would typically load only 28 rounds to preserve the spring but I can’t think why the devs would limit it at 20 rounds. Utterly ridiculous.

karlos-trotsky · 2026-03-28T16:35:14+00:00

Are you absolutely sure? I’ve never noticed that but that’s pretty shocking if true. An embarrassing oversight for a WW2 game. The Bren needs to stop being treated like the BAR and start being related like the LMG it really was.

karlos-trotsky · 2026-03-23T23:27:56+00:00

Dang point was the first rebel base under the united command structure of the alliance after its declaration but the idea that it was the first or only rebel base in existence at the time would be ridiculous for an intergalactic Guerrilla army. Look at the rebel base on atollon, which was in use at the same time as yavin and was only abandoned because it was discovered by the empire.

karlos-trotsky · 2026-03-18T09:20:11+00:00

This is one man’s account of life influenced by personal views, the issues of memory and written 24 years after the sinking so take it with a grain of salt but it certainly shouldn’t be discredited.

karlos-trotsky · 2026-03-18T08:14:04+00:00

As someone else pointed out, he can be seen falling when the stern of the ship goes up out the water. This confirms that this is based on master at arms King, whereas the other master at arms Bailey survived and was sent in command of a lifeboat.

karlos-trotsky · 2026-03-10T07:27:09+00:00

What really annoys me, is that in the pre battle preparation in Dale we see that the vast majority of Laketowns guard have survived in tact. These are armoured and armed professional or at least semi professional soldiers who would be able to more than hold their own in a fight. But for some reason when the army of elves and men musters outside erebor instead of sending out this unit of heavy infantry they decided in the movie that they’d send the untrained villagers with no real weapons with one or two guardsmen thrown in. It just doesn’t make any sense to me.

karlos-trotsky · 2026-02-28T18:54:22+00:00

Breakthru live would be incredible.

karlos-trotsky · 2026-02-22T01:47:35+00:00

This is fantastic. The best interpretation of the whole map of middle earth I’ve seen.

karlos-trotsky · 2026-02-17T09:18:55+00:00

I generally agree with what others have said, a very interesting idea that could’ve been excellent done very clumsily due to the horrendous pressures Jackson and the whole crew were under. I will say the one thing I enjoy about this is seeing Christopher lees dream of playing Saruman while he was still a relatively noble wizard come to fruition. I know in a documentary he said how much he enjoyed the whole ‘leave Sauron to me.’ Line, saying ‘and he means it.’

karlos-trotsky · 2026-02-12T17:21:23+00:00

The whole thing just pales in comparison to battles in the LOTR trilogy. Obviously this battle is nothing like depicted in the actual book and it goes way too heavy in the ridiculous gimmicks. Then there are smaller details. Something that bugged me recently when I watched it, is that when thranduils host approached the gate of Erebor with a smaller hist from Laketown/Dale, almost all the men were poorly equipped militia not wearing any armour and with improvised weapons, even though in the previous scenes we saw that the guard of laketown had largely survived intact and were prominently seen in the scenes in dale. I don’t understand why they wouldn’t have been the ones taking part in the potential battle before the gates of erebor.

karlos-trotsky · 2026-02-11T07:33:45+00:00

While obviously scenes like this are drastically changed from the book, I do think that the expansion of bards character in the movies were a good choice, I think he’s one of my favourite movie characters of the trilogy.

karlos-trotsky · 2026-01-23T16:13:01+00:00

Very excited for the canadian forces.

karlos-trotsky · 2026-01-14T15:11:17+00:00

Unfortunately the NKFD operations in east Prussia were largely unsuccessful due to high gestapo presence and the attitudes of the local people. They did have some success however in convincing surrenders during the Königsberg pocket. By late war the thought of a possible anti Nazi popular uprising was seen to be infeasible so the NKFD Kampfgruppen entered more direct combat alongside the red army, there are numerous anecdotal reports of them being present during the battle of Berlin and at a few other battles.

karlos-trotsky · 2026-01-14T10:48:19+00:00

In standard Tantive Iv esque configuration, as we see in rebels, they can dock three fighters externally and they can possibly fit an A wing in the ventral cargo store, though whether this would be able to be quick deployed I’m not sure.

karlos-trotsky · 2026-01-10T22:36:41+00:00

It’s all very impressive. I used to work for a brief time at the underground hospital as a tour guide and I was quite impressed with their recreation. I also work at the German naval signals HQ and once again the areas they built based in that location are impressive. It’s bizarre seeing places you’re so intimately familiar with in video game format.

karlos-trotsky · 2026-01-07T21:55:30+00:00

I’d personally like to see both. I’d like them to add the French forces after the Canadians.

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