October 1918 On this day: 4th KRRC under fire near Villers Outreaux.   A company of the 4th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, led by T/Lieutenant Horace Sydney Bennett came under under heavy fire near Villers Outreaux.  On the March  Shelling  Training  Shelling  Attack Made  A New Div HQ  Reliefs  Heavy Shelling  Training    Diary  0430 hours 2nd Division & 63rd Division attacked.  New Area  Reconnoitering forward area's.  On the March  Enemy Guns active on intermediate and Back area's.  Billets in Penin. 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 1918. Pte. Joshua Africa. Read their Story. Able Seaman Anderson. Hawke Btn. Royal Naval Division Read their Story. Pte. George Archer. 9th Battalion Norfolk Regiment Able Seaman Jacob Nelson Armitstead. Drake Btn. Royal Naval Division Read their Story. Able Seaman Arthur Ashley. Hood Btn. Royal Naval Division Read their Story. Private John Atkinson. 1st Btn. Royal Marine Light Infantry Read their Story. Officers Cook 2nd Class Azzopardi. H.M.S. Wallflower. Read their Story. Pte. Percy Bealey. 1st Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment Read their Story. Ronald Griffiths Beat. 2nd Btn. Sherwood Foresters Read their Story. L/Cpl. Thaddeus Richard Begley. MM. 6th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers Read their Story. S/Lt. William Francis Benson. Drake Btn. Read their Story. Pte. Arthur Edward Bradley. 9th Battalion Dorset Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Arthur Robert Coles. 12th/13th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Cooke. Coy. A, 16th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. George Samuel Cooper. 9th Btn Norfolk Regiment Pte. Herbert "Bert" Covill. 13th Battalion King's Liverpool Pte Soloman Davison. 1st Battalion Essex Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Hugh Owen Edwards. 16th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Robert Richard Edwards. 23rd Btn. Royal Fusiliers Read their Story. H. Feinhols. Active Citizen Force Read their Story. Pte. John Felton. 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Eric John Fordham. Bedfordshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. William Friel. 6th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers Gnr. John Edward Griffiths. 8th Bde. Australian Field Artillery Read their Story. Pte. Walter Hawley. 2nd Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment Pte. William Edgar Holmes. VC. 2nd Btn. Grenadier Guards Read their Story. Pte. Arthur Reginald Jones. 10th Battalion South Wales Borderers Read their Story. Pte. Griffith Owen Jones. 16th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Pte. Patrick Joseph Kelly. 5th Battalion Connaught Rangers Pte. Alfred Larrington. 9th Btn Norfolk Regiment L/Cpl. Clifford Granville Lees. 8th Btn. King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment Pte. Edward "Sil" Lewis. 14th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Read their Story. A/Sgt. James Michael Mansfield. 1st Btn. Monmouthshire Regiment Read their Story. 2/Lt George Sowersby Mason. 2nd Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John Pass. Read their Story. Pte. Daniel Pearce. 12/13th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. William Frederick Pearman. 9th Btn. Norfolk Regiment Read their Story. Rfmn. Ralph Porter. 2/6th Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Arthur George Price. 9th Battalion Norfolk Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Joseph Pyrah. 63rd Btn. Machine Gun Corps Read their Story. Pte. Bert John Robinson. 2nd Btn. Suffolk Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. Charles Henry Robinson. 8th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment Pte. Alexander Sambridge. 1st Btn. Royal Berkshire Regiment Read their Story. Rflmn. Joseph James Shall. 16th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Rflmn William Charles Styles. 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Gnr Richard Bartholomew Sweet. "A" Bty. 210th Bde Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Cpl. Frederick Charles Symonds. 8th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte James Taylor. 57th Btn. Machine Gun Corps Read their Story. L/Cpl. Herbert Arthur Virtue. Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps Read their Story. Rflmn. John Walker. 1st Btn. Monmouthshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Jack Harold Walters. 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment Read their Story. L/Sgt. William Herbert Waring. VC,MM. Royal Welch Fusiliers Sgt. William Herbert Waring. VC, MM. 25th (Montgomery and Welch Horse Yeomanry) Btn. Royal Welch Fusiliers Read their Story. Rifleman Reginald John "Reggie" Williams. 1st Batallian Monmouthshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Job Wilson. 2nd Battalion Ox & Bucks Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Harry Wombwell. 10th Btn Royal Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Edgar Wood. 15th Btn. Welsh Regiment Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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