4th October 1917 On this day: Training   9th Btn. (North Irish Horse) the Royal Irish Fusiliers. are at Ruyaulcourt. Parades, working parties and recreational training as usual. 9th Royal Irish Fusiliers diary WO 95/2505/2  9th Brigade AIF in reserve at Broodseinde Ridge  In Action  Inspection and Training  Attack Made  Orders to Move    ECURIE CAMP C Co relieved B Co in LONG WOOD, Other parties as above. 18th DLI war diary WO95/2361/1  Visit to Hospital  On the March  Training  Working Parties  Attack Made  In Action  Starting a new job  In Action  Attack Made  Admissions  Training  In the Trenches  Gas  Rationing  Baths  In the Line  Active Patrols  Air forces reorganised  Harassing Fire  Intelligence              Working Parties  Attack Made  Training  Took over camp  Training with the reinforcements  Attack Launched  On the Move  At Bedford House in Divisional Reserve to 95th and 13th Brigades.  Lecture by Commanding Officer  Attack Made  Battalion bathed at Anzin St. Aubin bath's.  On the Move  Attack Made  Report  At Rest  Operational Orders  Table of Carrying Parties  Addendum to Operational Orders.  Company Training and Football matches  Preliminary Instructions No.1  Operational Order No.18 issued  Posting  Operational Order No.18  Inspection in complete Fighting Order 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 October 1917. Pte Robert Airton. 9th Btn Lancashire Fusiliers Pte. Albert Edwin Anderson. 1st Battalion Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) Read their Story. Pte. Harry Andrews. 1st Btn. King's Own Scottish Borderers Read their Story. A/Bmbdr. Stanley Barham. 147th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Read their Story. Pte. William Patrick Barnes. 39th Btn. Read their Story. Pte. W. Barton. 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Pte. John Bates. 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers Read their Story. L/Cpl. Douglas George Bell. 10th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Gnr. Edgar Borley. 182 Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Read their Story. Pte. John Boyd. 21st Btn. Manchester Regt. Read their Story. Pte. John Boyd. 21st Btn. Manchester Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Edward Breen. 2nd Garrison Battalion Royal Irish Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John Bancel Brickdale. 1st Btn. Auckland Regiment Read their Story. Gnr. Eric Burgess. 23rd Btn Read their Story. Thomas Kilwick Claxton. 250th Tunnelling Company Royal Engineers. Read their Story. Pte. Elijah Colledge. 6th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment Pte. John Connolly. 19th (3rd Salford Pals) Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers Gnr. Alexander Cretney. 45 Brigade, 5 Bty. Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Drvr. George Alfred Dale. 173 Brigade, C  Bty. Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Pte. Charles Dell. 16th Battalion Middlesex Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. Robert Mckee Devine. 9th Btn. Sherwood Foresters Read their Story. Lt.Col. Stephen Hamilton Dix. MC. 12th/13th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. L/Cpl. Hugh Murray Donaldson. 2nd Btn. Kings Own Scottish Borderers Read their Story. Pte. Robert Elliot. 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry Pte. Robert Elliott. 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Frank Farley. 1st Btn. East Surrey Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Robert Albert Featherstonehaugh-Wooster. 43rd Btn. Read their Story. Sgt. Jack Frith. 8th Btn., B Coy. Lincolnshire Regiment Lawrence Gaines. 12th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Read their Story. Sgt. Charles Hugh Langford Gibson. 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment Read their Story. Capt. Lawrence Gjers. 2nd Btn. Seathforth Highlanders Read their Story. Pte. John "Jack" Gott. Pte. Vernon Greenhough. 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters Read their Story. Pte William Grogan. 13th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Cpl. Robert Hall. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Ezra Jack Harmer. 144th Coy. Machine Gun Corps Pte. Ezra Jack Harmer. 144th Coy. Machine Gun Corps Read their Story. Pte. William James Hawkins. 8th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry Gnr. John Gardner Hayes. 90th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Read their Story. Cpl. Thomas George Hazzard. 1st Battalion Somerset light infantry Cpl. Thomas George Hazzard. 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry Pte. Harold George Hurdley. 1st/7th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John Jefferson. MM & Bar 15th battalion Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. William Johns. 8th Btn. Devonshire Regiment Cpl. Walter Johnson. 9th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Cpl. Arthur Frank Jones. 8th Btn. Devonshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Reginald Jones. 18th Middlesex Regt. (Pioneers) Read their Story. Pte. Sidney W. Kirbyshire. 8th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Ernest Henry Lake. 8th Btn Somerset Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte Charles Lisseter. 6th Btn Royal Warwickshire Regiment Pte. George William Main. 9th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers Pte. David Ernest McCann. 37th Btn. Pte. William Daniel McCarthy. 1st Btn. Hampshire Regiment Pte William McLeod. 2nd Bn The Seaforth Highlanders Cpl. John McNeill. 2nd Btn Gordon Highlanders Read their Story. William Mitchell. 2nd Btn. Kings Own Scottish Borderers Read their Story. Pte. John Robinson Morray. 12/13th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. William Sidney Newberry. 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Albert Nuttycombe. 9th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry DH Frank O'Hara. HMS Colleen Read their Story. Pte. Alfred Patterson. 8th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers L/Cpl. James Payne. 8th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment Read their Story. 2nd.Lt. Albert Perkins. 197th Coy. Machine Gun Corps Read their Story. William Samuel Pollard. 13th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Read their Story. Pte. George Riste. 1st Btn. Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry Capt. Clement Robertson. VC. Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Tom Prescott Rowbottom. 22nd Btn. Manchester Regiment Pte. Samuel Shepherd. 1/8th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Read their Story. Act.Cpl. J. R. Short. 24th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. William James Spencer. 1st Battalion Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry Read their Story. Rfmn. Walter Edward Spratt. 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. Harry Stockley. 13th Btn Royal Fusiliers Pte. Reginald George Albert William Sutherley. 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Henry Craggs Sutton. 10th Btn. A coy. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Hubert Thombs. 8th Service Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment L/Cpl. William Henry Thompson. 11th Btn. Manchester Regiment James Victor Trevelyan. 1st Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. John William Walker. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Walter Herbert Wilson. 10th Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Rflmn. John Woodhouse. 12th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Pte. William Arthur Young. 9th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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