14th April 1917 On this day:  training and route march  Casting of Horses  New Regulations  Objective Gained  In Support  Counter Attack    18th Battalion Durham Light Infantry moved from Haillicourt to billets in Caucourt. 18th DLI war diary WO95/2361/1  On the Move    Under Fire  Training  In Reserve  Reliefs  Artillery in Action  Assault  Village Shelled      Orders  Training  Transport Competition  Line Captured  Hostile Battery  Attempted Raid  Orders to Move  Carrying Parties  Billeted in the cellars of the Museum inn Arras.  Advance  Deep Mud  Enemy shelled Canal  Work  Turks shelled Hospitals  52nd Division Order No.56 received  Relief Ordered  Marched to Denier  Reprisal bombing raid  Orders  Move 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, 14th of April 1917. Private William Allan. Plymouth Btn. Royal Naval Division Read their Story. Cpl. Bertie Barnard. 1st Btn. Essex Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Walter Bartrup. 2nd Btn. Hampshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John Edward Blackburn. 9th (County of London) Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Sidney Brignull. 1st Btn. Essex Regiment L/Cpl. Alfred Frederick Clare. 24th Btn. Royal Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Samuel Corker. 1st/6th Battalion 50th (Northumbrian) Division Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Rfle. Ernest Albert Daking. 16th (Queens Westminster Rifles) Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. James Patrick Egan. 6th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Sgt. John Erskine. VC 5th/6th Btn. D Coy. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Read their Story. Pte. Charles Richard Ewers. 8th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment Pte. Fred Govan. 5th/6th Btn. B Coy. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Read their Story. Pte. Dick Hardy. 1st Btn. Essex Regiment Pte. Thomas Henry Hawker. 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John Heaton. 2/5th Btn. A Coy. No 1. Pltn. Manchester Regiment Read their Story. CSM. George Augustine Hemming. 9th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John William Hodgson. 2nd Btn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Charles Henry Joiner. 12th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment Read their Story. Sgt Oliver George King. 1st Btn Essex Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Bertie Harold Lee. 1st Btn. Essex Regiment Rflmn. Philip Archibald Nicholas Lowry. 1/9th (Queen Victoria's Rifles) Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Dvr. Joseph McNally. 57th T.M. Battery, Z Coy. Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Sgt. Thomas Merry. MM. 1st Btn. Essex Regiment Read their Story. Pte John William Narvidge. 1st Btn. Essex Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Ethelbert Bibby Nicholls. 2/1st Btn. Hertfordshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. George Nicholls. 8th Btn. Queens Own West Kent Regiment Pte. Walter Henry Platt. 2nd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment Read their Story. A/Bmdr. William Price. 63rd Brigade, B Bty. Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Pte. William James Priddis. 2nd Btn. Devonshire Regiment Act.Bdr. Francis Alan Rollins. "D" Bty. 23rd Bde Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Pte. Frederick James Samwell. 1st Btn. Essex Regiment Read their Story. Sidney John Short. lst Btn Bedfordshire Regiment Read their Story. Bty. SM James Stoney. 140th Siege Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery Pte. John Thornber. 9th Btn. Scottish Rifles Read their Story. Pte Cecil Charles Turner. 1st Battalion Essex Regiment Pte. Frederick Henry Watridge. Hampshire Regiment Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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