The 1/8th Battalion began the war in 125th Brigade with the 1/5th and 1/6th Battalions , but while in France with the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ) it exchanged with the 1st Battalion , Border Regiment into the 4th Infantry Brigade part of the 2nd Infantry Division , as part of official BEF policy to mix the Regular and Territorial armies . During the Battle of France , the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers , along with the 1st Battalion , Royal Scots and the 2nd Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment , were overrun on 26 – 27 May 1940 around the village of Locon , 2 kilometres north of Bethune , by advancing German troops . Several massacres of Allied prisoners took place shortly thereafter , such as the Le Paradis massacre , primarily by the German SS Totenkopf Division . Later , the battalion fought in the Burma Campaign and participated in many famous battles , such as the Battle of Kohima , serving in the British Fourteenth Army under Bill Slim
Le Paradis massacre
Le Paradis massacre
Lancashire Fusiliers