22nd April 1917 On this day:  Church Parade  Defensive trench work  Severe Fighting  Into the Trenches  Attack Made    ST NICOLAS 22 - 28 April. Working on the light railway between ARRAS and BAILLEUL. Weather fine, the work progressed very well. The weather was fine but cold the whole week. Casualties for the period, 8 ORs. 18th DLI war diary WO95/2361/1  On Leave  Training  Fine and Normal  Outposts  Working Parties  In Reserve  Working Parties  Awards  New German Division          Into Position  Working Parties  Rounds Fired  Church Parade  Warning Order Received  Wind Unfavourable  Orders  Reliefs  Operational Orders  Church Parades  Church Services  Preface to Operational Orders  Operational Order  Move  Intermittent shelling all day.  Withdrawal completed   Enemy Guns Active  Marched off at midnight 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, 22nd of April 1917. Pte. Cecil Frederick Addison. 1st Battalion Essex Regiment Read their Story. Gunner John Edward Anderson. 34th Brigade, C Battery Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Rfmn. Charles Ernest Cable. 17th (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) Battalion London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Charles Ernest Cable. 17th Btn. London Regiment Pte. Reginald Harry Chambers. 16th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Pte. John Henry Clarke. A Coy, 14th Battalion Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. James Crick. 1/4th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment Rflm. Stanley Howard Crowle. 1st/8th (P.O. Rifles) Btn. 3 Coy. London Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. Albert Victor Davis. 12th Btn. Gloucestershire Reg Read their Story. RQMS. William Thomas Fawn. D Coy. 6th Btn. Dorsetshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Joseph Firth. 8th Bn East Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. William Hamilton. 10th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Pte. John William Koekemoer. 6th Regt. Read their Story. Gnr. Antonio Edward Mussalli. Royal Garrison Artillery Read their Story. Pte. John Harold Pateman. 2nd Btn. Middlesex Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Albert Arthur Roads. 7th Btn. Leinster Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Albert Arthur Roads. 7th Btn. Leinster Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Henry "Bill" Stubbs. 101st Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Read their Story. Rflmn. James Albert Watts. 16th Btn King's Royal Rifle Corps Horace Albert Williams. 11th Btn. Essex Regiment Add a name to this list.

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