1st November 1916 On this day:  Grenade training  1430 hours the Battalion left Longpre by train to join 1st Army. BRF Beddington opens.   Box Repair Factory Beddington, Croyden, Surrey started in November 1916 with first output in early 1917. Production was repairing bomb and grenade boxes. It was under the direct control of the Ministry of Munitions. Registration   236th London Brigade Royal Field Artillery are at Ypres, Lille Gate. Quiet day on the whole. Considerable trench mortar activity on our left. Batteries fired in registration only. War Diaries Messines Sector - Flanders   16th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles - Pioneers. November included some terrible weather with torrential rain, bitterly cold east winds and some snow. Mufflers and woollen gloves from home were eagerly sought after and leather lined jerkins were issued. Great efforts were made to equip the men’s huts with stoves and beds. A recreation and reading room was established with two fireplaces so that men returning cold and wet from work in the trenches had a place to get properly dried. The real mud of Flanders was making any movement of equipment extremely difficult and ongoing work from October was now doubly difficult. With the heavy rains, what had until then been a friendly stream helping to drain the surrounding area, now became a deadly foe flooding dugouts and communication trenches. As a result hygiene problems were caused by the lack of natural drainage flow. Casualties recorded: November Nil The Terrors by SN White R Class Super Zeppelin   Zeppelin LZ82 (L36) Production Ref: LZ82 Class type : R Tactical ref: L36 Usage: Military First Flight:1st November 1916 History. Carried out 20 flights around the North Sea and England, including four reconnaissance missions. It was damaged during a landing in fog at Rehben-an-der-Aller on the 7th February 1917 and decommissioned. John Doran 7th Btn Royal Irish Fusiliers at Kemmel   7th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers is at Kemmel then in December moved to Wyschaete. Jan 1917 saw it in the Kemmel and Hazebrouck sectors, then by July 1917 it was at Steenvorde on the Franco-Belgian border.  Battalion training.  Training courses  Enemy Below  Dual Role  No Celebrations  Artillery Exchange    18th durhams report from Rossignol Farm "Dull & cloudy, slight rain. Practice of raiding parties started. Big working parties for trenches required. Only one case of trench foot. 2Lt Bradford re-joined & posted to C Coy. 30 reinforcements distributed." 18th DLI war diary WO95/2361/1  In Dugouts  Preparations  Relief  Working Parties  A Big Explosion  Enemy "Pineapples"  Inspection  On the March  Trench Work  New Home Defence Squadron formed  Reliefs  Wet Weather  Holding the Line  Training  Thick Mud  Enemy Active  Unsuccessful Raids  Reliefs  Holding the Line  Holding the Line  Improving billets  Instruction School Opened  121st Infantry Brigade Order 34.  March Table  Training in open warfare  Patrols  Aircraft Brought Down  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft Lost  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Observer Wounded  Reliefs  Attacks Postponed  In the Trenches  Brigadier General Visited Camp  Reorganisation  Operational Orders  Relieved tomorrow night  Training and inspection  Work continued on trenches  Q.123 from 52nd Division  Quiet Day  Training.  Reliefs Can you add to this factual information? Do you know the whereabouts of a unit on a particular day? Do you have a copy of an official war diary entry? Details of an an incident? The loss of a ship? A letter, postcard, photo or any other interesting snipts? If your information relates only to an individual, eg. enlistment, award of a medal or death, please use this form: Add a story.

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Remembering those who died this day, 1st of November 1916. Matthew Allsopp. 14th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. L/Cpl. George Thomas Bennet. 8th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment Sgt. William Francis Brookes. MM & Bar. A Coy. 2nd Btn. Worcestershire Regiment Spr. Michael Clifford. Inland Water Transport Royal Engineers Read their Story. Pte. Joseph Fennelly. 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Jefferson Gann. 22nd (The Queens) Battalion London Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl Henry Gregory. 13th Btn. Middlesex Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Alfred L. Jefferies. 6th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. George Kean. 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. John Thomas Ludlam. 7th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. A.Bmbdr John Robert Mooney. C Bty. 50th Brigade. Royal Field Artillery Pte. George Ernest Mutukishna. Read their Story. Pte. Leonard Watson. 10th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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