7th August 1917 On this day:  Movements  Route march and Staff Ride  On the Move  Battery Shelled  Route March  Reliefs  Training  On the Move  Shelling  Working Parties  Under Fire  Good grub  Reliefs  Reliefs  Gas  On the March  Training   An Enemy Probe  New CO    Under Shellfire  Hostile Batteries  Relieved  Reliefs  Diary  Parades  Training  A German Raid  Firing on the range.  Very thick mist  Into the Line  Strong Points  General day  Heavy Shelling  Reliefs  All moveable Tanks to Brielel  1/7th Scot. Rifles wired  52nd Divisional Orders No.67.  G.R. 17/2/15  Fatigue Parties  First landing of an aircraft on a ship  Lectures  Training  Night work 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, 7th of August 1917. Sgt. Charles Rhodes Allsopp. 7th Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Sgt. Herbert Blackburn. Northumbrian Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Read their Story. Pte. James Bowerman. 6th Btn. Northamptonshire Rgt. Read their Story. L/Cpl. David Morris Davies. 16th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers Pte. Thomas "Bones" Eglington. 2nd Btn. Royal Irish Regiment Read their Story. Pte. B. Gerrard. 7th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment Pte. James Glennon. 7th Battalion Leinster Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Irving Graham. 8th (Service) Btn. Border Regiment Sergeant Samuel Beecher Horsman. 21st Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Private Ernest Hunt. 10th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment Pte. Charles John Machon. 7th Btn. East Kent Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John Mulligan. 11th Btn., D Coy. Lancashire Fusiliers Spr. W. G. Seale. 1st Canadian Tunnelling Coy. Pte. Joshua Vincent. 7th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry Read their Story. Thomas Wilbur. 7th Btn. East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) Read their Story. Edward Wilkinson. MM. Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. 2nd Lt. Fred Brookfield Wilson. 12th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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