15th September 1916 On this day:  Instructions Heavy Losses   The 15th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment attacked at Flers, aided by the first appearance of 4 tanks. The objective was reached, but heavy losses caused the battalion to retire. Almost half the battalion was lost in the attack. 2nd Sherwoods make attack   2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters attack the Quadrilateral, on the Somme.  New Positions  Tanks in Action Ongoing actions   42nd Siege Battery RGA Ongoing activity in Somme Offensive with the great Allied Tank attack and encounters at Highwood, Longueval, Delville Wood, Switch Trench, Guillemont and Gavinchy. Incessant bombardments by the Germans at Warlencourt/Bapaume and Thilloy. extracts from memoirs  Ongoing positional defence  Tunnel Completed  Immediate standby all day  Heavy Casualtiesin 8th Bedfords Sucess   15th (Portsmounth) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, as part of the 41st Division, attacked and gained Flers on the first day with the assistance for the first time of tanks. The 41st Division Memorial is in Flers.  Anxious for News  Tanks in Action Quiet   In the Neuve Chapelle Sector 18th Durhams report: "Bright & cold. Quiet throughout the day." 18th DLI war diary WO95/2361/1  Attack Made  Casualties Evacuated  Rescued  New Home Defence Squadron formed  Reinforcements  Quiet  Assault Made  Onwards  Thoughts  Exercise  Route March  New Organisation  Airmen killed    In Action  Training  Training  Attack Made    Trench Raid  No Man's Land Reconnoitred  On the March  Trench Raids  Orders  Shelling  Advance  Outposts  Diversion  Trench Raid  In Action  Preparations  Diversion  On the March  Diary  Training  Into Support  Draft inspected  Aircraft Lost  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft Lost  Aircraft Lost  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft Lost  Aircraft Lost  Aircraft Lost  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft Lost  Aircraft Lost Posting   2/Lt. Clapperton took over command of C Coy 7th Buffs from Lt. Hands. Capt. Wood was transferred to B Coy as Second in Command of Coy. 7th Buffs war diary WO95/2049  Digging in  Battery Stands To  Artillery Moves  Attack Made  Assembly Trenches  Duties  Training  In Action  In Action  On the March  Attack  Canadians attack  Operational Orders  Attack starts  Under fire  Improvements  In Action  B.M. 3005 to units  Notice to Move  Attack Made  Orders Sucess   The 10th Bn Cameronians were on the Somme and had just taken the village of Martinpuich on the 15th Sept, a great success with 300 prisoners captured. Unfortunately due to the attack being held up on both flanks the 10th had to dig in, instead of advancing through unbroken country relatively unopposed. The Germans took a while to discover the new front line, but about mid-day on 16th got there artillery bringing down heavy fire on the 10th's positions, it is likely this was when James Woods was killed. The casualties in this battle were 3 Officers and 47 men killed, 10 Officers and 250 men 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 September 1916. Pte. Harry Sidney Augustus Anstiss. 11th Btn. Queen's Own Royal Kent West Regiment Read their Story. Cpl. Thomas Oswald Austin. 1/7th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. L/Cpl. Charles Beaumont. 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment Rflmn. Albert Beechey. 9th Btn Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte Ernest Charles William Bellamy. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Pte. Thomas Bodie. 2nd Btn. Irish Guards Pte. Samuel Walter Bolch. 1st Btn. Coldstream Guards Read their Story. Pte. Henry Victor Bosonnet. 15th (Service) Battalion Hampshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte Joseph Branton. 1st/6th Bn. London Regiment (City of London Rifles) Read their Story. Sgt. Donald Forrester Brown. VC. 2nd Battalion Otago Infantry Regiment Read their Story. Pte. William Buckingham. VC 1st Btn. Leicestershire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Joseph Carey. 7th Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Joseph Carey. 7th Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers Read their Story. Hugh Carton. MM. 1st Battalion Irish Guards Read their Story. Sgt. Alfred Oliver Clarkson. 2nd Btn. Scots Guards Read their Story. L/Cpl Anthony Coates. 1/5th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Charles Havelock Constable. 9th Btn. Norfolk Regiment Sgt. Robert Constantine. 9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry. Read their Story. Pte. John Cook. 1/5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Rfm. Leonard William Corner. 7th Battalion Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Jesse Gerald Clement Cozens. 15th (Civil Service Rifles) Btn. London Regiment L/Cpl. William Oliver Crathorn. 4th Battalion Coldstream Guards Read their Story. Act Co. Sjt Mjr. Stanley Alistair Creek. The London Regiment Pte. William Anthony Dewing. 9th Battalion Norfolk Regiment Read their Story. Sgt. William Diamond. 9th Btn. Scottish Rifles Sgt. William Diamond. 10th Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Read their Story. Sgt. William Diamond. 9th Btn. Sgt. William Diamond. 10th Btn. Cameronians Read their Story. Sgt. William Diamond. 10th Btn Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Read their Story. L/Cpl. William J. Dobson. 5th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Pte. William Alexander Donald. 7th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Pte. George Dennis Douglas. 9th Btn. Norfolk Regiment Read their Story. Durrent. Suffolk Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Frederick Ebdy. 6th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Joseph Edwards. 8th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps Pte. David Elliott. 6th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Rfm. Arthur Emeny. 9th Battalion Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) Read their Story. Rflmn. John Alexander Evans. 9th Battalion Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Rflm. William Evans. 18th (London Irish Rifles) Battalion London Regiment Sgt. Cyril James Everitt. 29th Battalion Read their Story. Pte. John Fairburn. Durham Light Infantry Pte. William Fearns. 5th Btn Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. William Frederick Filler. 19th Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John Frederick Float. 1st/19th Bn. London Regiment Read their Story. Rflmn. Jack Ford. 17th Battalion London Regiment Read their Story. 2nd Lt. Robert Douglas French. 1/6th Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Pte Robert Futter. 9th Btn. Norfolk Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Robert James Gaffikin. 3rd Canadian Tunnelling Company. Pte. Henry Garner. 1st Btn. East Kent Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Frederick Thomas Gearey. 1st Btn. Royal Fusiliers Read their Story. Rfmn. James Thomas Gearing. 1st/6th (City of London Rifles) Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. CSM George Goodey. MC 9th Btn. Rifle Brigade L/Cpl. George Henry Grantham. 15th (Civil Service Rifles) Btn. C.Coy. London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. James Green. 3rd Btn. Coldstream Guards Read their Story. Pte. Frank Henry Gummer. 24th Btn. London Regiment Pte Louis Gunton. 9th Btn Norfolk Regiment Pte. Louis Gunton. 9th Btn. Norfolk Regiment Pte. Charles William Gutberlet. 9th Btn. Norfolk Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Haddigan. 15th Battalion Hampshire Regiment Pte. Charles Ernest Hadley. 19th Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John William Handley. 1/7th Btn., A Coy. Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Cpl. John Joseph Haynes. 18th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. L/Cpl. Harry Robert Heaver. 7th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Pte. Albert Victor Hewitt. 9th Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Rfm. Charles Alfred Edward Hipwell. 17th Poplar & Stepney Rifles Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Rifleman Alexander E R Hirst. 1st/6th Bn. London Regiment (City of London Rifles) Read their Story. Pte. Frederick Herbert Hiscox. 18th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Pte. James Richard Hodgson. 4th. Yorkshire Regiment Pte. Frederick William Holt. 3rd Btn. Coldstream Guards L/Cpl. Emsley Hopkins. 18th (London Irish Rifles) Btn London Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. Reginald Louis Hull. London Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. James Adam Jamieson. 4th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Benjamin Walter Keatley. 5th Btn Oxfordshire and Bucks Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Frank A. Kelly. 26th Btn. Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment) Read their Story. Pte. Charlie King. 1st/5th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. George Knight. 15th Bn. Hampshire Regiment Read their Story. Oscar Albert Knight. 32nd (East Ham) Btn. Royal Fusiliers Read their Story. L/Cpl. Alfred Knowlden. 8th Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. Benjamin Lane. 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment) Read their Story. George Lawless. 1st Btn. Irish Guards Read their Story. Pte. George A. Leak. B Coy., 4th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment Pte. Ernest John Leman. 9th Btn. Norfolk Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John Charles Lidgley. 1st/21st (Surrey Rifles) Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. Walter Linfield. 8th Battalion Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. Solomon Llywarch. 9th Btn. Cheshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte Bernard Richard Lowe. 3rd Btn. Coldstream Guards Read their Story. Gnr Thomas Maguire. 50th Trench Mortar Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Pte. Francis Manning. 2nd Btn. Irish Guards Pte Francis Mannion. 2nd Btn Irish Guards Pte. Francis Mannion. Gunner Miles Farrar Hemming Mason. 40th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Pte. Robert Cecil McDill. 8th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders Read their Story. Pte. Alfred Merton. 9th Btn. Norfolk Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Alfred Miles. 32nd Battalion London Regiment L/Cpl. Thomas Monk. 1st/6th Battalion Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment Read their Story. 2nd Lt. Cecil Newton. 6th Btn. Cameron Highlanders Read their Story. Pte. George William Nixon. 1st Btn. Leicestershire Regiment Sgt. Francis O'Leary. 1/6th Btn. London Regiment Pte. Harold Edgar Parnaby. 6th Btn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Sgt. Henry Parrish. MM. C Coy. 9th Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. Percy George Pearce. 19th Btn. B Coy. London Regiment Sgt. Reginald Perry. 15th Btn. Hampshire Regiment Read their Story. Rfmn. Arthur Prestidge. 9th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Rifleman James Arthur Quarmby. 7th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps Lascar Abdur Rahman. Read their Story. Pte. Herbert Leonard Ramm. 9th Btn. Norfolk Regiment Rfmn. Albert Edward Read. 8th Btn Kings Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. L/Cpl. John Reynolds. 1st Battalion Irish Guards Read their Story. Pte. John Elder Richardson. 6th Btn Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Pte. Albert Rickman. 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers Read their Story. RSM. Arthur Frederick Ridout. 19th (County of London) Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. RSM. Arthur Frederick Ridout. 19th (County of London) Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Rfm. Robert Beeley Robinson. 1/7 Btn, C Coy. London Regiment Read their Story. Rifleman William James Robinson. 8th Battalion, C Coy. The Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. James Robson. 1/7th Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte William Percy Shanks. 12th (Bermondsey) Battalion East Surrey Regiment Pte. Thomas Sloan. 1st Btn. Scots Guards Read their Story. Capt. Hubert Stapleton. 15th Battalion Hampshire Regiment Pte. Gustav Adolph Stromberg. 31st Bn. Read their Story. Pte. Henry George Suffling. 9th Btn. Norfolk Regiment Pte. Cecil George Tappin. 3rd Btn. Coldstream Guards L/Cpl. Valentine Sullock Aveline Tardif. 15th (Civil Service Rifles) Battalion London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Alfred John Terrey. 9th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment Rflmn. Harry Thompson. 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps Sgt Robert Phillip Thomson. 9th Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Rflmn. Harry Timberlake. 8th Battalion Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. Henry William Tullet. 12th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Henry William Tullett. 11th Btn. Royal West Kent Regiment Read their Story. Pte Charles Walford. 11th Btn. B Voy. Royal West Kents Read their Story. Rflmn. Ernest Charles Walters. 8th Btn. (Post Office Rifles) London Regiment Rifleman John Jackson Weldon. 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Rflmn. Charles Whiteman. 10th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Pte. John Edward Widdas. 5th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. Samuel Edmond Wild. 1st Btn. A Coy. Leicestershire Regiment Read their Story. Rfmn. George Williams. 16th Btn Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Sgt. Henry George Willmott. 9th Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Rfmn. Frederick John Wiltshire. 9th Battalion Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. Frederick John Wiltshire. 9th Battalion Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte Walter Woolley. 8th Btn York and Lancaster Add a name to this list.

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