October 1917 On this day:  On the March Daily Activity   9th Btn. (North Irish Horse) the Royal Irish Fusiliers. Havrincourt Wood K.31.c.0.0. Corps have ordered all Battalions to be continually on the offensive while holding the line. Consequently the Battalion will organize patrols nightly (weather permitting) and raids will be carried out at fixed periods. Owing to very bad weather no patrols went out on night of 7/8. Very quiet in the line, afternoon and night very wet and the men got a special issue of rum. War Diaries SS Memphian lost   Seven miles East/North-East of the Arklow light vessel, the Memphian was torpedoed by U-boat 96 captained by Kapitanleutenant Heinrich Jeb. Thirty-two crew members were lost. Wreckage and bodies washed up along the Cambrian coast. A few were identified but most lie in graves marked as unknown at the locations where they were found, their names recorded as being lost at sea on the Tower Hill Memorial, London.  Lecture for Officers  On the Move    ECURIE CAMP A Co relieved C Co in LONG WOOD. 18th DLI war diary WO95/2361/1  Out of Bed  Training and Sports  On the Move  Into Dugouts  Kit Inspections  Duty runner  On the Move  Training  Training  Amusements  New squadron formed  Training  New aerodrome  New Squadron formed  Recreation  A Quiet Day  Wet Day  Orders  Training  Training  Route March  Quiet Night  Platoon and Company drill  received orders to attack Polderhoek Chateau on the morning of the 9th in conjunction with 16th Warwicks on the right.  Officers visit Front Line.  Reliefs  Reliefs  Battalion concert at 1900 hours in ASC Hut.  Relief Table  Practising Wiring  Operational Order  In Support  O.O.No.20 received   L.T.M.B. Relief completed.  Joined for duty.  Heavy shelling  Training 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, of October 1917. Seedie Sherif Bin Abdulla. H.M.S. Talbot. Read their Story. AB. James Alford. SS Memphian Read their Story. Slr. James Austin. SS Memphian Read their Story. Pte. Robert Beaver. 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment Read their Story. CQMS Michael William Behan. 1st Btn. Hampshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. William "Jessie" Bignell. 10th Btn. Essex Regiment AB. William Brien. SS Memphian Read their Story. Fireman. Prospher Charles Colman. SS Memphian Read their Story. Gnr. Albert Victor Coulson. 67th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Read their Story. Cpl. Herbert Hawkins. 144th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Read their Story. Pte. Ernest Hines. 21st Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment Gnr. John Walington Jeal. 173rd Brigade, D Bty Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Pte. Arthur King. 14th Btn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. 2nd Lt. Homer Warring Laird. Read their Story. Pte. Albert Edward Mayger. 16th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Pte. Harry Moody. 8th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Pte. Thomas Naseby. 1/7th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment Frmn. Thomas Patten. SS Memphian Read their Story. Spr. G. Poisson. 1st Canadian Tunnelling Coy. Pte John Arthur Sullivan. 13th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Joseph Sykes. 1st Btn. Cheshire Regiment PO Edmund Henry Walker. HMS Victory Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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