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The Cheshire Regiment was formed in 1881 from the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot, created in 1689 by the Duke of Norfolk. It suffered 8,420 casualties during the First World War; this picture is from the Battle of the Somme of 1916.
Credit: Lt. J. W. Brooke (July 1916)
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