18th October 1916 On this day:  Reconnoiter of new sector. 16th Northumberland Fusiliers march south   The 16th Btn Northumberland Fusilers march from Gouy-en-Ternois to Amplier, enroute to The Somme sector.  On the March  Wearside Pals arrive at Oismont  Battalion training  Weather postponements  Shelling  Blankets Issued  Training & Working Parties  Reliefs  Orders  Reliefs  In the Trenches  An Officer Transfers  Shelling  Quiet  2nd/5th Battalion East Kent (The Buffs)  Working Parties and Training  Reliefs  On the March  Training  Two Small Bombardments  Soldiers Recreation rooms  Training  Reliefs  Defence Work and Training  Patrols Out Again  Instructions  SECRET  Quiet day.  Orders received  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft Missing  Organisation for Attack  Underclothing changed  Working parties  Concealing Bivouacs  Relieving Australians  Working Parties  Marched into billets at Neuville Au Cornet  On the March 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, 18th of October 1916. Boy 2nd Class Frederick William Charles Adams. H.M.S. Impregnable. Read their Story. Artisan Ah_Kum. Read their Story. Rifleman Albert Henry Anson. 21st (1st Surrey Rifles) Battalion London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Beck. 13th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Reginald Benton. 2nd Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers Pte. Leonard Bond. 9th Btn. Norfolk Regiment Lt. Arthur Henry Brown. 1st Regt. Infantry Read their Story. Pte. John Dyer. 1st Btn. East Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Harry T. Farr. 1st Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Arthur Jackson Hilditch. 18th Battalion Kings Liverpool Regiment Pte. Arthur Jackson Hilditch. 18th Btn. Liverpool Kings Regiment Pte Arthur Jackson Hilditch. 18th Btn. Kings (Liverpool Regiment) Read their Story. Cpl. Patrick Kane. 1st/3rd Durham Field Company Royal Engineers Read their Story. Pte. William Linn. 5th Btn. Cameron Highlanders Read their Story. Pte. Richard Edward Martin. 2nd Btn. Hampshire Rgt. Pte. Ernest Leonard Mingo. Rifle Brigade L/Cpl. Thomas Henry Moore. 2nd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John Edward O'Kell. 8th Btn. Black Watch Read their Story. 2nd Lt. John Stanley Palmer. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Capt Ralph Lewis Pratt. 2nd/4th Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment Sgt. William Henry Pudney. 9th Battalion Essex Regiment Pte. John Rowan. 2nd Btn. Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte Charles Sparrow. 9th Bn. Norfolk Regiment Pte. Alexander Symington. 10th Btn. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Pte. Harold Jackson Wyatt. 9th Btn. Essex Regiment Read their Story. L/Sjt. George Young. 17th (Service) Battalion (Rosebery's) The Royal Scots Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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