19th October 1917 On this day:  Improvements  Gun Dismantled Reliefs   18th Battalion DLI relieved 16th WYR in L2 (Arleux) Sector. Relief complete 4.23pm. Major Ince returned to Details. 18th DLI war diary WO95/2361/1  Discharged  Training & Football  Shelling  Reinforcements  Move  Zeppelins  In the Trenches  An easy day  On the Move  Training  Training  Wire-cutting TMs  Orders  Orders  Orders  Orders  Enemy Shelling  Relieved  Inspection  On the March  Brigade tactical exercise  Relief Ordered  Transfer  Training and re-organising.  Field practice  Line Taken Over  No Hostile Artillery activity  A Relief  Trench Warfare  Battalion Transport Officer 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, 19th of October 1917. Whlr. James Watt Andrews. C Battery, 242nd Brigade Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Capt. Joseph Lynch Coakley. Labour Corps Read their Story. Gnr. Frank Ellix. 19th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Read their Story. Frmn. John Walter Gibson. Middlesborough SS Hazelwood Read their Story. Pte. Jack Graham. 18th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers John Joseph Hannay. 38th Brigade Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Gnr. Victor Charles Huggett. 49th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Read their Story. Sgt. William Ikin. 1/7th Btn. Cheshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Frederick Littlechild. 113th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps. Pte. Joseph Orton. MM. 8th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment 2nd Lt. Reginald Pryce-Jones. 8th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Walter Searle. 12th Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. George Edward Seddon. 32nd Btn. Royal Fusiliers Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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