21st July 1916 On this day: All Quiet   236th London Brigade Royal Field Artillery: All quiet. Nothing to report. War Diaries  First casualty  More mounted work  Hot Day  On Stand by  The Effects of Gas  In Reserve  Reliefs Completed  Reliefs  Recce  Meeting  In Billets  Marching into Billets    Reinforcements  In the Trenches  At Rest  Award    Orders  Reliefs      On the March  Baths  Attack Made  Defence Work  Training  Counter Battery  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft Lost  Aircraft Lost  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft Lost  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Orders Received  Wounded  Enemy Takes High Wood  In Billets  Relief started  Reliefs  On the March  Orders  Fatigues  Reliefs  On the Move  Patients  Reliefs  Operational Order  Change of senior officers  B.G.C. returned from Alexandria  Work Materials  7th Royal Scots. reached Romani  On the March  Medal Ribbons Presented  Re-organising Companies. 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, 21st of July 1916. Pte. William Boden. 12th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment 2nd.Lt. Francis Arthur Noel Brown. 1/7th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment Read their Story. Cpl. Robert Cecil Cooper. 1/6th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Charles Curtis. 13th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment Sgt. Howard Alexander Fagan. MM, MID. 1/16th (Queens Westminster Rifles) Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Sgt. Howard Alexander "Alec" Fagan. MM, MiD. 1st/16th (Queens Westminster Rifles) Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. C/Sgt William James Godfrey. 10th Btn. East Surrey Regiment Read their Story. Ernest Goodwin. West Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Patrick Heaney. 8th Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Cornelius O'Neill. 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment Read their Story. Rflmn. Edward Charles Phillimore. 16th (Church Lads Brigade) Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps Pte. Francis J. Phippen. 12th Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Henry Francis Pinder. 13th Battalion Essex Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Arthur William Skilton. 1st Battalion The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Read their Story. Pte James Arthur Skinner. 8th Batallion Royal Fusiliers Pte. John Staff. 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Cpl. Ernest Albert Surman. 10th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. Herbert Taylor. 7th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment Pte. David Noel Wain. 16th (Church Lads Brigade) Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Lt. Henry Webber. MID. 7th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Sea. Samuel Websdale. HMS Almanzora Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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