3rd September 1916 On this day: Assault Sucessful   236th London Brigade Royal Field Artillery report: In the morning the Australians captured Mouguet Farm also the 1st Division occupied their objectives in High Wood. At 1200 the 14th Corps captured Guillemont and 15th Corps captured Ginchy. The French took Clery and reached within 1000 yards of Combles. Batteries fired intense heavy bombardments prior to the attacks mentioned above. War Diaries Wounded Treated   On the 3rd of September 1916, the 62nd Field Ambulance RAMC was involved in the Battle of Guillemont retrieving and treating wounded soldiers from the battlefield very close to where the enemy were firing an incessant hail of bullets and shells. This was during the decisive Allied attack on the German-held strong hold of Guillemont. 62nd Field Ambulance were operating under the command of British 20th (Light) Division which operated in unison with the 47 Brigade of the 16th (Irish) Division and together other forces they succeeded in capturing Guillemont on that day. 62nd Field Ambulance had been involved in this battle for many months prior the victory on 3rd September, operating in the so-called 'Valley of Death' which the Germans sprayed with machine-gun fire, bombs and gas-shells from their vantage point with great loss of life to Allied forces.  Attack Made  British Lines Shelled  New Shaft  Church Parade Ongoing training   6th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment are at Lealvillers from 3rd to 5th of September and training continued. war diaries  Air Ship Destroyed  Change of duty Reliefs   At 15.00. 18th Battalion. DLI Less D Co. proceeded into billets at La Fosse after being relieved by 17th Manchesters at Le Touret. 18th DLI war diary WO95/2361/1  In Action  Machine Gun Fire  Bravery Recognised  Working Parties  Reliefs Completed  A Few Quiet Days  Reliefs Completed  Enemy Active  Leave  Training  Orders  In Action    A Gas Alarm  In Action  Quiet  Equipment  Defence Work  Attack Made  Reliefs Complete  Movement Table Troops by road  Table Movement 1st line transport by road.  Table Allotment of additional transport  Table  Diary  Diary B.O.O.14  Quiet Night  Reorganisation  Quiet  Considerable enemy Trench Mortar activity  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft Lost  Pilot wounded  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft Lost  Aircraft damaged  Observer Wounded  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  On the March  Reorganisation  At 1400 hours The Battalion moved to Casement Trench.  Postings in and Postings out  Billets  Church Parade  Working Parties  Orders Received  In Action  Wire Cutting  Smoke liberated from shell holes  At Rest  Attacks Made  Training  Musketry  B.M. 2873 issued to units  Active Artillery  Rested in billets  Training  Reorganisation  Reorganisation  Reorganisation  Diary 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 September 1916. Rflmn. Albert Anderson. 11th Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. Bertram Ankers. 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. John William Armitage. 1/5th Btn. Cheshire Regiment L/Sgt. Ernest William Atkins. 11th (South Down) Btn. Royal Sussex Regiment Pte. Charles Joseph Henry Bennison. 12th (Bristol's Own) Battalion, B Coy. Gloucestershire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Patrick Bolger. 6th Btn. Connaught Rangers Pte. Angus Booth. 5th Battalion Duke of Wellington 1st Read their Story. Pte. George Bould. 1st Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Read their Story. L/Cpl. George Eric Brady. 10th Battalion Rifle Brigade Read their Story. 2nd Lt. Ernest Edward Brannigan. 7th Battalion (Leeds Rifles) West Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. 2nd Lt. Ernest Edward Brannigan. 1/7th (Leeds Rifles) Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Harry Brown. 1st/5th Btn. West Riding Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Richard Bryant. 12th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment Rflmn. Hedley John Byrne. 10th Battalion Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. Lewis C. Calvert. 1/5th Battalion Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding) Regt. Read their Story. 2nd Lt. Donald Gordon Campbell. 51st Bn. Read their Story. Pte Albert Chard. 14th Btn. Hampshire Regiment Read their Story. Cpl. Herbert Stanley Clark. 1/6th Batallion Gloucestershire Regiment Read their Story. Cpl. Harry Cliff. 4th Btn. West Riding Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Christopher Coleman. 7th Battalion Leinster Regiment Read their Story. Pte. James Collins. 14th Battalion Hampshire Regiment Pte. Cecil Greenfield "Greeny" Coney. 17th (Wellbeck Rangers) Btn. Sherwood Foresters Pte. David Francis Coughlan. 7th Battalion Leinster Regiment Rfmn. Harry Cove. 16th (St. Pancras) Btn Rifle Brigade Sgt. James Stanley Crossley. 4th Btn. West Riding Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Frederick James Curtis. 12th (Bristol) Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. William James Daniels. 116th Coy. Machine Gun Corps Pte. William James Daniels. 116th Coy. Machine Gun Corps Pte. Henry James De Carteret. 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment Pte. Edward Dearing. 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Henry James de_Carteret. 6th Btn., D Coy. Royal Irish Regiment Read their Story. Rflmn. Frederick John Dunkerton. 16th (St Pancras) Battalion Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. Patrick Dunne. 6th Btn. Connaught Rangers Read their Story. Cpl. Edward Dwyer. VC 1st Btn. East Surrey Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Stanley Harry Earthy. 6th Battalion Royal Irish Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Alfred Edwards. 6th (Service) Btn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Evan Ellis. 1st Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Arthur Broxup Feather. 4th Battalion West Riding Regiment Read their Story. Pte Reuben Fell. C Coy 2nd Btn Royal Warwickshire Regiment CSM Albert Walter Field. 8th Battalion East Kent Regiment CSM. Albert Walter Field. 8th Battalion East Kent Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Frederick Stanley Field. 12th (Bristol) Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. Ernest Fitzgerald. 16th Btn. Rifle Brigade Rifleman William Gladwin. 11th Btn Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Rflmn. William Gladwin. A Coy, 11th Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte Albert Edward Green. 15th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment Pte. George "Dodger" Green. 2nd Btn. South Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Richard Rutland Hartley. 9th Btn. East Surrey Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John Ivor Herring. 14th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. William George Holloway. 14th Btn. Hampshire Regiment Pte. Percy Howard. 1/5th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte John Hughes. 1st Btn Royal Welsh Fusiliers Read their Story. L/Sjt. Sam Jackson. 1/4th Btn. Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. George Charles Johnson. 16th Battalion Rifle Brigade Capt. Harry King. 11th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Ernest Alfred Laflin. 16th (Service) Battalion, C Coy. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Cpl. William John Lakey. 1st Btn. Royal Welch Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. William Joseph Law. 11th Battallion (Pioneers) Read their Story. Lt.Col. J. A.M. Lenox-Conyngham. Connaught Rangers Read their Story. Rflmn. Henry George Lewis. 11th Btn. Rifle Brigade Sgt. Patrick Lynch. 7th Btn. Leinster Regiment Read their Story. 2Lt. Victor Braine "Josser" Marsh. 6th Btn. Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Patrick McWilliam. 7th Btn. Leinster Regiment Rflmn. William George Miles. 16th (St Pancras) Battalion Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. Charles Mitchell. 1st Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders Pte. Edward Saunders Murray. 6/7th Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. David Ogden. 20th (5th City) Btn. Manchester Regiment Read their Story. Sgt. James OHare. 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Frank James Orr. 17th Btn. Sherwood Foresters Read their Story. Pte. Edwin Parratt. 1/6th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment Rflmn. James Pike. 10th Battalion Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Rflmn. James Pike. 10th Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. Albert Pozzi. 16th Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. Frederick William Pozzi. 16th Battalion Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. John Rae. 2nd Btn. Kings Own Scottish Borderers Read their Story. 2nd Lt. Norman Ramsay. 16th Battalion Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) Read their Story. 2nd Lt. Lionel John Roberts. 16th (St Pancras) Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. Alfred Salt. 15th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. William Scott. 2nd Btn. Kings Own Scottish Borderers Read their Story. Pte. Albert Smith. 4th Btn. West Riding Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Garnet Smith. 15th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Wilfred Sidney Twiggs. 12th Btn. C Coy. Gloucestershire Regiment Pte. Charles Percy Ward. 1st Btn. East Surrey Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Allen George Young. 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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