3rd April 1917 On this day: Batteries Fire   236th London Brigade Royal Field Artillery report C236 Battery fired forty four rounds in wire cutting and X47 Trench Mortar Battery sixty rounds. A236 Battery fired during the night on the same area of bombardment as yesterday. War Diaries  Ongoing training  Bad weather continues  Very Cold  Failled Attack  Cemetery Visit  On the Move  Reliefs Completed  Casualties  Reorganisation  Splendid Work  Smoke Screen  Bathing  On the March  Snow  In Defence  Heavy Snowfall  Working Parties    Musketry  Reliefs  On the Move  Advance  Snow  Training and Orders  Orders  Allocations  Training continued.  Blizzard  "C" & "D" Coys. Rifles inspected   Baths and Work  Quiet  Reliefs   Operation Order No.2.  General Instruction  Administration Order  Working Parties  Reconnaisance made by Turks from Gaza positions  G.B. 585 received to get troops under Arms  Weather Bad  Training.  Reinforcements  Preparations 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, 3rd of April 1917. Stoker Alauddin Rajab Ali. Read their Story. Capt. Harold Edwin "Rollo" Armitage. MID 10th Infantry Battalion Read their Story. Gnr, Samuel Brown. 170th Bde. C Bty. Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Pte. Henry Dove. 2nd Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Pte. Horace Gunby. 2nd Btn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Pte. Horace Gunby. 2nd Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Cpl. Charles William Hall. 20th Btn. Manchester Regiment Capt. Tom Marriott Harrison. 13th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Rees Price Jarman. 13th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Arthur Kitson. 2nd Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Pte. Harry Southwick. 10th Battalion Green Howards Pte. Fred Thompson. 13th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Add a name to this list.

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