Lancashire Fusiliers Annual Reunions between the wars

[adnepos]

One of my great grandfathers, 282312 Pte Walter Samms HARTLEY was in 2/7th then 10th Bn of the Lancashire Fusiliers during the Great War.

My mum wonders where he disappeared to, regularly, every Spring, not telling anybody where he was going/had gone. She suspects that he went to Annual meet-up , despite him not being there. Could this be true?

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Adnepos,

Yes it could be true. I have read that many of the men attended reunions, both formal and informal. Formal occasions may have been arranged by the regiment whilst the informal reunions were usually arranged between a few chums. One of the Lancashire Fusiliers formal event that ran until after the Second World War was "Thiepval Day" when the men would march to the Sacred Trinity church and a service of remembrance was held for the men killed on the 1st July 1916.