 It suffered some 400 casualties at the Second Battle of Ypres in May 1915.The 2nd Battalion landed at landed at Le Havre as part of the 14th Brigade in the 5th Division in August 1914.The value of the 2nd Battalion's 20 years of peacetime training was exemplified at the Battle of Le Cateau on 26 August 1914, a mere 23 days since Britain had declared war on Germany.