15th November 1916 On this day: Daily Battery Activity   236th London Brigade Royal Field Artillery. formerly 6th County of London Brigade RFA. Territorial Force. All Batteries tested timing switches by actually firing and carried on registering of Division Zone. Day was generally quiet. Bombardment of Snout provoked a little retaliation. At 1430 hostile aeroplanes were unusually daring and nonplussed observers which let one machine fly almost unmolested 1500 feet over I.26, 27 and Valley Cottages. New enemy work at I.19.c.1.4 and I.30.b.8.0 has progressed. Activity round a camouflet near hilly place suggests offensive Sapping operations, ultimate intention probably being to jump our front line and command reverse slope of ridge. (Note: sapping is constructing trenches forward from the front line towards enemy positions,usually as listening posts or, as suggested here, jumping off points for attacking troops, getting them nearer to enemy lines under cover). (Further note: a camouflet is a chamber created by explosives underground without breaking the surface (which would be a crater)). War Diaries  Moves and inspections  Inspections and preparing stables floors  Reliefs  Valiant Gunners  Patrols  On the March  Into Billets  Training  A TM Demo  To Red Lodge  On the March  Training  Reliefs  Attack Made  Trench Raid  On the March        Three TM Bombardments  Trench Work  Reliefs  On the Move  Quiet  Working Party  A Combined Shoot  121st Brigade Order No.39.  Move  Move  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Reliefs  Reliefs  The Battery Advances  Hostile Artillery active  Withdrawal  Bombardment  Firing on the range.  End of Battle of the Ancre  On the March  B.G.C. held conference of Lewis Gun Officers  Outpost duties  Baths  Captain J.S. Thain M.C. Adjutant Wounded. 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, 15th of November 1916. Pte. Alfred T. Ansted. 4th Btn. Royal Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Joseph Armstrong. 10th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Joseph Bonnie. 7th Btn. King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment Pte. Herbert Crone. 19th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Joseph Donley. 2nd Btn. Highland Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Hugh Flynn. 18th Btn. Highland Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Henry Ison. 11th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. William Henry Knott. 8th Battalion Prince Albert's Somerset Light Infantry L/Cpl. William McClean. 13th (1st County Down) Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Pte. John Henry Norton. 11th Battalion Middlesex Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John Rannigan. 1/5th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. William Nelson Rees. 9th Btn. Welsh Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Joseph William Smith. 53rd Coy. Machine Gun Corps Pte. George Waite. 2nd Btn. Highland Light Infantry Add a name to this list.

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