12th October 1917 On this day:  Attack Made  Quiet Day  Daily Activity  9th Brigade AIF in action  Assault Made  Under Shellfire  Out of Bed  Working Parties  Working Parties and Training  Attack Made  Out in the rain  In Billets  Reliefs  Training  Training  Training    Dummy Raid  Training  Orders  Orders  Orders  Orders  At Rest      Training  Company Training  Brigade tactical exercise  Relief Completed  On the Move  Marched to Berthen. Weather was very bad, raining all day.  Line quiet.  Reliefs  Reliefs  Administrative instructions for O.O.190.  Artillery quiet during the night.  Orders Received  Training in Faubourg De Baudimont Area.  Orders from Brigade  Shelling  No's. 2 & 4 Companies were relieved  Bathing 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, 12th of October 1917. Sgt. Charles Thomas Airey. MM. 7th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders Read their Story. Leading Seaman Frederick Crichton Allison. Drake Btn. Royal Naval Division Read their Story. Lt. Thomas Acheson Armstrong. C Coy. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. L/Cpl. Albert Barber. 10th Btn. York & Lancaster Regiment Read their Story. Rfm. Simon Bernstein. 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Sgt. Archibald Boswell. 10th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Read their Story. Grdsm. John Bradon. 2nd Btn. Grenadier Guards Read their Story. CSM. George Bricknell. MM. 8th Battalion, D Company South Staffordshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte George Edward Brock. 8th Btn. York & Lancaster Regiment Read their Story. Pte W R Brooks. 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Fred Broomfield. 8th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte, Malcolm Gibson Butchart. 8th Btn. Black Watch Sjt. John Hood Clark. 12th Btn. Royal Scots Read their Story. Pte. Frank Bartram Edwards. 39th Battalion Pte. George Edward Farr. 12th Btn. Royal Scots Read their Story. Pte. Wright Firth. 7th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders Read their Story. Pte. Walter Thomas Franklin. 8th Battalion East Surrey Regiment Read their Story. A/Bmbdr. Harry Freeman. 248th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Read their Story. Pte. Matthew Gray. DCM 34th Btn. Read their Story. Pte Edward Hanley. 25th (2nd Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers L/Cpl. George Frederick Hatty. 10th Australian Machine Gun Coy Read their Story. Pte. John Henretty. 8th Battalion Black Watch William Holburn. 10th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Read their Story. Pte. Elijah Hollister. 8th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment Capt. Clarence Smith "Jeff" Jeffries. VC 34th Btn. Read their Story. 2nd Lt. Harry Edward Jones. 22nd Squadron Read their Story. Rflmn Thomas Knight. 1/8th Btn. West Yorks Regiment Read their Story. Sjt. Charles Casio Lawrence. MM. 7th (Service) Battalion Rifle Brigade Read their Story. A/Bdr. Henry Lowe. 83rd Bde. C Bty. Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Pte. Alexander Macdonald. 5th battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders Read their Story. Rflmn. Ernest Edwin Mayhew. 8th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Sjt. Lewis McGee. VC. 40th Btn. Read their Story. Sgt. Lewis McGee. VC. 40th Btn. Australian Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Downie McLellan. 4th Australian Pioneers Read their Story. Pte. Downie McLellan. 4th Australian Pioneers Australian Infantry Read their Story. Pte. John Milne. 11th Battalion Royal Scots Pte. Samuel Mogg. 10th Btn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby) Read their Story. Pte. John B. Moran. 12th Btn Royal Scots Read their Story. Rfm. David Muir. 2nd Bn. 3rd NZ Rifle Brigade. Read their Story. Rfm. David Muir. Read their Story. Pte. Albert Oglesby. 3rd Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Albert Oglesby. 9th Battalion Read their Story. L/Cpl. Henry Richard Payne. 7th Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Pilch. 4th Btn. Grenadier Guards Read their Story. Pte. James Platt. 8th (Service) Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment Pte. Edward Potterton. 8th Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment Cpl. Joseph Edward Preece. 8th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment Pte. William Pulling. 7th Btn. Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment Pte. Thomas Robertson. 12th Battalion Royal Scots Pte. William Robson. 11th Btn. Royal Scots Cpl. Enoch Shepherd. MM. 8th Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Robert Sim. 5th Btn. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders Read their Story. L/Cpl. John Frederick Simister. 10th Btn. Sherwood Foresters Read their Story. Pte. Robert Henry Smith. D Company 33rd Battalion Read their Story. L/Cpl. John Tennant. 8th Btn. Black Watch Read their Story. Sgt. Thomas Henry Treversh. 7th Btn. East Kent Regiment Sgt. Thomas Henry Treversh. 7th Btn. L/Cpl. Irving Dent Veitch. 12th Btn. Royal Scots L/Cpl. Irving Dent Veitch. 12th Btn. Royal Scots Read their Story. Pte. Herbert Walker. 8th Btn., C Coy. East Surrey Regiment Read their Story. Cpl. Percy T. Williams. 1st Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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