16th August 1917 On this day: Langemarck retaken   The village of Langemarck which had been lost the the enemy in April 1915, was retaken on the 16th of August 1917 by 61st Brigade, 20th (Light) Division. They crossed the Steenbeek early in the morning with 7th KOYLI and 7th Somerset Light Infantry leading. The advance was held up by fire from the blockhouses to the west of the village, these were cleared by men of the 7th KOYLI including Pte W. Edwards who was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions.  Ongoing training Exercise   A Newcastle Journal article of 16th August 1917 describes 11 Battalion Volunteer Training Corps attacking an entrenched position at Cocken Hall and also going over the bayonet assault course under the supervision of instructors from the Yorkshire and Lancashire Regiment. The Volunteer Training Corps are a little known formation which was the forerunner of the much better known Local Defence Volunteers or Home Guard of the Second World War. The Yorks and Lancs had taken over the camp from the DLI, probably in late 1915. AlastairFraser NML Project Info  Communication Restored On the Move   18th Battalion DLI entrained at Laurel Siding at 4.0pm and went by train to transport lines at Neuville St Vaast. They left Neuville St Vaast at 8.15pm and marched up to take over from 13th Y&L in support in Acheville Sector. Relief complete at 12.30am on the 17th. Order of battle is 15th WYR in L1. 16th WYR in L2. 18th DLI in support. 18th WYR in reserve. 5th Div on right. 92nd Brigade on left. 18th Battalion DLI HQ was established in Beehive Support. 18th DLI war diary WO95/2361/1  Accident  Training  New MO  At Rest  Into Reserve  Attack Made  Under Fire  Under Fire  Practice Day  Air Raid  In Reserve  Training  Enemy Wire  Shelling  Training & Working Party  Training  Division Falls Back        Artillery in Acton  Attack Made  Route March  Reliefs  Diary  At Rest  Mock attack training continues  MGs Active  Gas discharged  Still in forward camp.  On the March  Training under Company arrangements  Training  Line Held  Into Camp Area  18th Corps. Attacked with the 48th Division  Musketry commenced.  Re-equipping 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, 16th of August 1917. Ordinary Seaman Arnold Ackroyd. H.M.S. Anchusa. Read their Story. Pte. Robert Akid. 11th Btn. Manchester Regiment Read their Story. 2nd Lt. Frederick William Andre. 8th Battalion (Territorial) Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) Cpl. Michael Archbold. MM. 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers Read their Story. Rflmn. John Armstrong. 7th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Flight Lieutenant Arnold. Read their Story. Rfmn. Samuel Ayre. 11th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Sgt. Edward Bailey. 7th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Pte. Charles Reginald Baker. Royal Berkshire Regiment L/Cpl. Christopher Baker. 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers Read their Story. L/Cpl. Stephen John Ball. 11th Btn. Manchester Read their Story. Pte. Joseph Barnes. 9th Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. John Bray. 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. James Brennan. 2nd Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers Read their Story. 2nd Lt. William Roche Brereton-Barry. 10th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Horace Brockhouse. 9th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers Read their Story. Sgt. Benjamin Chipchase Clayton. 12th Battalion Durham Light Infantry Cpl. Thomas Cockhead. 8th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. George Walter Stuart Cooper. 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment Pte. William Henry Corrigan. 7th Battalion Royal Inniskillen Fusiliers Read their Story. Rflmn. Henry Coughlan. 1st Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Rflmn Charles Edward Cozens. 1st Battalion Royal Irish Rifles Pte. George Albert Curtis. 7th Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Hugh Dalzell. 9th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. William Devenny. 11th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusilers Read their Story. Pte. John Dolan. 9th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Francis Donnery. 9th Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. George Edward John Gough Douthwaite. 2nd Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Capt. William Joseph Gabriel Doyle. att. 8th Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers Army Chaplains Department Read their Story. Pte. Frederick Charles "Fred" Drew. 11th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Thomas William Ellis. 1/8th Battalion Middlesex Regiment Read their Story. 2nd Lt. George Stride Falkiner. 2nd Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers Read their Story. Arthur James Farr. 2nd Btn. Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. Joseph Arthur Fisher. 8th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Gnr Duff Forbes. 216th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Rflmn. John Fullerton. 14th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Pte. Robert Gaffney. 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. James Galley. MM. 11th Btn. Manchester Regiment Read their Story. Rfmn. Josiah Gibbons. 1st Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Rflm. James Gilmour. 13th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Pte. James Hamriding. 8th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Cpl. Ernest Alfred Hawkesworth. 12th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps Pte. Wallace Hedge. 7th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. John Richard Hepworth. 8th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Joe Hey. 12th Btn. C Coy. Kings Royal Rifle Corps Pte. Alexander Hill. 8th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Read their Story. L/Cpl. William Quintis Ewart Hill. 14th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Pte. James Hullah. 144th Company Machine Gun Corps L/Cpl Robert Jackson. 2nd Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Pte. Thomas Kearney. 1st Battalion Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Pte. John Patrick Kearns. 12th Battalion Kings Liverpool Regiment Cpl. John Kee. 9th Btn. Royal iniskilling Fusiliers Read their Story. L/Cpl. William Keenan. 14th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. L/Cpl. Thomas Kelly. 5th Btn. Dorsetshire Regiment Rfm. William Kerr. 14th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Rfmn. Patrick Lynch. 14th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. 2nd Lt. Christopher Mackeson. MiD. 2nd Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. Hambleton Mason. 8th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Rfmn. James Mawhinney. 13th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Rfn. Ernest George May. 5th (London Rifle Brigade) Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. David Mccullough. 14th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Pte. Hugh Mcevoy. 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers Pte. William John McEvoy. 8th Btn. Inniskilling Fusiliers Pte. Thomas McKeown. 11th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Read their Story. Sgt. Henry Millman. 9th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers Read their Story. L/Sgt Herbert Johnson Moffitt. 8th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Pte. John Frederick Moffitt. 12th Btn. Kings Regiment (Liverpool) Read their Story. L/Cpl. George Paisley. 14th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Pte. Peter Peet. 11th Btn. Manchester Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Percy Powell. 12th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps Pte. Norman Leslie Roberts. 7th Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Pte. William Robson. 8th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Pte. George Edward Rolingson. 2nd Btn., D Coy. Royal Berkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. George Rushworth. 8th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers L/Cpl. William George Rutledge. MM 11th Batt Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Pte. William Edward Salter. 1/8th Btn. Middlesex Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Jacob Spedding Shaw. 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers Pte. Louis Henry Smaje. 8th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Read their Story. Sjt. Walter Ernest Smith. MM & bar. 475 Field Coy Royal Engineers Read their Story. Cpl. Harry Prentice Snell. 1/5th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment Read their Story. Pte Arthur Somerset. 7th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Cpl. Jack A.C. Stacey. 1st Canadian Divisional H.Q. Read their Story. Pte. George Stead. 7th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. L/Cpl. Thomas Stewart. 11th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Read their Story. 2nd Lt. Edward Stokes-Hatte. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Drvr. David William Sullivan. 173rd Brigade, B Bty Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. ACSgt Joseph Teaz. 8th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Pte. Percy Laurence Thompson. 2nd Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Cpl. Charles Thorpe. 13th Btn. Middlesex Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. Bertie Edmund Titmas. 12th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Rflmn. Samuel Topping. 11th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles Pte. Charles Heber Ward. 14th (London Scottish) Btn. London Regiment Pte. Albert Watson. 2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment 2nd Lt. George Whelan. MC. 2nd Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. William Ewart Young. 2/5th Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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