4th May 1917 On this day:  "Stand Down". Relocations   The remaining sections of each Battery and Headquarters Staff of 236th London Brigade Royal Field Artillery await night action on the Bluff and Canal sectors immediately South of Ypres and with three Batteries of 235th Brigade remaining in newly formed Chateau Group, covering the whole of the 47th Divisional front. Lt Colonel W B Grandage OC. 235 Brigade RFA remained in command of the Group with HQ Staff 236th Brigade. Two, two inch Trench Mortars Batteries and one 9.45 Trench Mortar also form part of the Group. War Diaries  Staff Rides and new horses  Ammunition Dump Ablaze  Warm Day    GAVRELLE In trenches reorganising and arranging for relief at night by the 94th Bde. 18th DLI was split up under Col’s CROYDON & TAYLOR. Bn HQ relieved by 12th Y & L. 18th DLI war diary WO95/2361/1  Courts Martial  Casualties  Plum & Apple  Trench Work  Under Shellfire  Training  At Rest  Moving Forward  Training  In the Trenches  On the March  In Camp  Reliefs  Demonstration  A Bombing Party      On the March    Working Parties  Report  A Quiet Day  Quiet  On the Move  Relief Completed  Transfer  In the Front line.  Battalion moved off at 0900 hours and proceeded to old German Front Line in Rocklincourt.  In trenches at Spoil Bank  Working Parties  Resting  Work continued  Platoon Training  Baths  Life at home 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, 4th of May 1917. Ordinary Seaman Allan. H.M.S. Vivid. Read their Story. Sgt. Louis J. Brennan. 1st Garrison Btn. Royal Irish Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Callerghan. 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Cpl. Charles Candy. 50th Company Machine Gun Corps Read their Story. Pte. A. C.V. Dyer. Royal Army Medical Corps Read their Story. Spr Victor Egbert Earl. Base Signal Depot Royal Engineers Read their Story. Pte. G. Edmonds. 12th Btn. (Teesside Pioneers) Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) Pte. R. M. Ellis. 5th Field Ambulance Read their Story. Pte. Earnest Frost. 6th Btn. Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment Read their Story. Pte. William Goddard. 1/4th Btn. Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry Read their Story. Gnr. John Gough. B Battery, 123 Brigade Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Pte. Michael Joseph Guinan. 2nd/5th Btn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment) Read their Story. Pte. Charles Littlemore. 4th Battalion Cheshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. James O'Rourke. 6th Battalion Royal Irish Regiment Read their Story. Pte. William Robertson Paterson. 15th Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Read their Story. L/Cpl Thomas Perry. 2nd Batt. Coldstream Guards Pte. Herbert Platt. 12th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment Pte. Eynon Price. 53rd (Welsh) Casualty Clearing Station Royal Army Medical Corps. Read their Story. Pte. John Owen Roberts. 24th (enbighshire Yeomanry) Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. William Leonard Roper. 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. George Smith. 2/5th Btn. Notts and Derby (Sherwood Foresters) Spr. George Robert Watson. 89th Fld. Coy. Royal Engineers Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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