October 1916 On this day:  Recce All Quiet   236th London Brigade Royal Field Artillery report from Mametz. No events of any importance. Several guns and Howitzers passed through our hands. War Diaries  Ops cancelled  Message Intercepted  Battalion training  Fine Day  Training  Shelling  Working Parties  Relief  Supporting a Gas Attack  A Gas Attack  Working Parties and Training  Reliefs Completed  Trench Work  Training  Training  Working Parties  Working Parties  Three POWs Taken  School  Orders  Aircraft  Defences  Quiet  Defence Work and Training  Shelling  Batteries Transferred  Shelling.  Three work parties  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft Lost  Working Parties  Battalion returned to Transport Lines.  Fairly Quiet  Considerable shelling  Working parties  Parade for Brigade Field day.  Brigade instructional exercise  Baths  Training  Line quiet 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 1916. Pte. Thomas Cain. 1/8th Btn. Middlesex Regiment Read their Story. 2nd Lt. Bernard Francis Conlin. 28th Brigade. Royal Field Artillery Rflmn. William Ellett. 1st Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. L/Cpl. Idris Evans. MM. 11th Battalion Essex Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Godfrey. 12th Btn. East Surrey Regiment Read their Story. Pnr. Ernest Jessie Goldie. 5th Battalion Special Brigade Royal Engineers Read their Story. Michael Guilfoyle. 7th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Arthur King. 9th Btn. Royal Fusiliers Rfmn. Arthur Herbert Lathan. 9th Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. William Marsh. 110th Company Machine Gun Corps Read their Story. Pte. George Parton. 22nd Btn. London Regiment Pte. John Rafferty. 2/8th Battalion Kings Liverpool Regiment Read their Story. Piper. James Clelland Richardson. VC 16th Btn. Canadian (Manitoba) Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John Rogers. 12th Battalion Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Rflmn. Albert Smith. 1st/5th Battalion London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) Read their Story. Rflmn. James William Wheatley. 10th Battalion Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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