27th February 1917 On this day: Reliefs   A and B Coys, 16th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers move up to the dug-outs at Warvillers to join C & D Coys. At night they move to line, taking over from 16 Btn Lancashire Fusiliers. All companies are in the front line over a very extended front. 16th Lancashire Fusiliers war diary  New horses arrive  In Billets    L4 SECTOR 4th Bn LEICESTER REGT relieved 5th Bn in sector on our left. 3.0pm. L/Cpl RIGG & Pte LAWER returned from patrol and report GOMMECOURT PARK and village evacuated. 6.0pm. GOMMECOURT occupied by two platoons of B Co. 18th DLI war diary WO95/2361/1  Reorganisation  Relief Complete  Training  Enemy Active  Training  Mist  New Camp  Errands  Route March  Reliefs  Training    Orders      On the March  Relief Complete  Pushing Forward  Reliefs  Transfer  Reliefs  Our Artillery Active  Kit Inspection  Parachute Flares  Reliefs  Support of Hill 60 Sector  Operational Order 140.  Route March  Positions  On the Move  Working Party of 5 Officers and 450 men  Musketry for last drafts to 7th Royal Scots.  G.R. 35/1/5 received   A New Camp  No Hostile Patrols were encountered.  On the Move 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, 27th of February 1917. Pte. Richard Henry Arnold. 16th Btn. Read their Story. Deck Hand Charles Ashworth. H.M. Trawler Evadne. Read their Story. Capt. Robert Archibald Colley. 74th Coy. Machine Gun Corps Read their Story. Pte. Edward Draper Eastwood. 6th Btn East Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Newman D. Fawley. 1/5th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment Read their Story. Cpl. Charles Ernest French. 7th Battalion Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) Read their Story. Pte. Tom Hargreaves. 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Joseph Isaac. 2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. Charles Robert Jenkins. 2nd Btn. Middlesex Regiment Read their Story. Gnr. William Henry Jones. 15th Coy. Royal Garrison Artillery Pte. Robert William Gutteridge Milburn. 23rd (Tyneside Scottish) Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Spr. Harry Sphynda. 1st Canadian Tunnelling Coy. Read their Story. Pte George Willey. 5th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Gnr. Frank Arthur Wood. 87th Brigade, C Coy. Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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