24th July 1916 On this day:  Company Parades Personnel   236th London Brigade Royal Field Artillery at Hersin report: 2/Lt Wildes returned from Trench Mortar Course. During the course he was sent to the Neuve Chapple front to take command of a Trench Mortar Battery during the operations there. War Diaries  Sounds Detected  Back to Querrieu and reinforcements  Action and first fatality.  13th FA Relieve 27th FA  Heavy Bombardment  New Well Dug  Working Parties  On the Move  On the March  On the Move  On the March  MGs Active  Working Party    Training  Reliefs  Aircraft  Reliefs Complete  On the Move        In Billets  Boche Holds the High Ground  In Billets  Artillery Active  Defence Work  On the Move  On the March  Rounds Fired  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Heavy Shelling  Reliefs  Heavy Shelling  Reinforcements  Very heavy shelling started at 0600 hours in valley by Caterpillar Wood, and again at 0900 hours  Enemy Artillery and Minenwerfers very active  Trench Work  On the March  Very Busy  Casualties  Brigade Conference.  Shot down by u-boat  B.M.2095 issued to units  Parades  Draft of 388 men 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, 24th of July 1916. Lascar Abdul Aziz. Read their Story. RSM Arthur Samuel Barker. DCM. Royal Horse Artillery Read their Story. A/Bmbdr. Charles Thomas Bishop. 39th Brigade, 54th Bty. Royal Field Artillery Pte. Hubert Frederick Boston. 8th Btn. King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment Read their Story. Spr. Hugh Campbell. 1st/2nd Durham Fortress Coy. Royal Engineers Read their Story. Dvr. Valentine Davies. D Battery, 86th Brigade Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Mjr. Lesley Reginald Coventry Douglas-Hamilton. Cameron Highlanders Read their Story. Pte. Philip Alan Gale. 10th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment Read their Story. Frederick Harper. 20th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers Able Sea. Alexander Hughson Johnston. SS Wiltonhall Read their Story. L/Cpl. Joseph Leighton. 8th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Hugh C. Macaulay. 11th Btn. Royal Scots L/Cpl. Robert McKnight. 11th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Pte. Charles McManus. 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. William McWhirter. 2nd Btn Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Pte. Jabez Perry. 6th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. L/Cpl. Harold John Read. 3rd Battalion London Regiment Pte Albert Edward Rooke. 12th Btn West Yorkshire Regiment L/Cpl Edward Butler Scott. M.M 12th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment L/Cpl. Alexander Webster. Gordon Highlanders Read their Story. L/Cpl. Dennis Whitehouse. 8th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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