30th September 1918 On this day: Advance Guard   At Becelaere at 5.30am 9th (North Irish Horse) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers, covered by an advance guard, moved forward through J.18.b, K.13 central to K.16.c. Information was received from Brigade to the effect that the 109th Brigade held Terhand and Dadizeele. 9th North Irish Horse Battalion was to pass through 1st Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers at 0700. 12th Royal Irish Rifles to advance on our left, Terhand, Vijfwegen Road the inter-Battalion boundary, the first objective to be a line roughly north and south through Vijfwegen (K.24.a); second objective to be railway running north and south (K.20 and K.26 central); third objective to be Mooreseele. The 29th Division was on our right. At 0700 1st Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers were on a line running south-west through K.21.a and c. The 9th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers were facing south with posts along Terhand, Vinwegen Road. The 1st Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers were held up by machine gun fire and had lost touch with the 29th Division. A patrol from 9th North Irish Horse Battalion discovered the 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers holding line running south from K.19.a.9.6 through K.19 central, i.e. 2000 yards in rear. B Company 9NIH were sent to move along line of enemy wire through K.21.b, K.22.c and K.29.c to occupy high ground in K.30.a. C Company to move to right rear of B Company to protect flank, to get and keep in touch with 29th Division. A Company to move through K.22 central, K.23 central to K.24.c and to keep touch with 12th Royal Irish Rifles and D Company to move in support along Terhand, Vijfwegen Road. B and C Companies 9th North Irish Horse came under machine gun fire almost at once after moving through the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, but A Company met with no opposition until they reached the east side of Methuen Wood, when they came under machine gun fire from houses in K.23.d about 9.30am. About this time the reserve Company came under machine gun fire from a pill box on K.24.b.0.3 and Leadenhall Copse which were cleared in spite of stiff resistance by 1230. Twelve prisoners and two machine guns were captured in this operation, and an Officer with twenty Other Ranks of the enemy being killed. All further attempts to advance our line beyond the general line of this pill box and Leadenhall Copse were prevented by very heavy machine gun fire from fortified farms on our right flank which was still hanging back. At about 1800 when the 2nd Royal Irish Rifles passed through the line to attack, the general line ran K.24.b.0.3, Leadenhall Copse, K.23.d.2.5, K.29.b.2.8. 9th North Irish Horse Battalion casualties during the day were six Officers and 130 Other Ranks. War Diarie North Irish Horse  Batteries out of range 33rd Machine Gun Btn at Villers-Guislain   The 33rd M.G.Battalion was under command of Lieutenant Colonel G.S.Hutchinson at Villers-Guislain at the end of September 1918  Ongoing Action  Reconnaissance  Reliefs  Cleaning up  On the Move  Following Retreating Germans  Training  In Action  Training  Reliefs  Orders  Aerodrome attacked  Training  Rapid advance  Orders  In Action  Ordered to Move  New RAF Squadron formed    Orders      Orders  Diary  General holiday  The Battalion moved to dugout near Flesqueries.  Divisional Relief  Enemy fairly quiet during the morning.  Battery Remains at Vermand  Bitter Fighting  Hard Fighting  Attack Made  Strength changes 31st August - 30th Spetember  Salvage in the same area  Tanks in Action.  Bulgaria sues for peace 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.

Killed, Wounded, Missing, Prisoner and Patient Reports published this day. This section is under construction.

Want to know more about 30th of September 1918? There are:38 items tagged 30th of September 1918 available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War.

Remembering those who died this day, 30th of September 1918. L/Sgt. Frederick Alcock. 2nd/5th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment Read their Story. Engine Room Artificer 3rd Samuel Richard Lorne Allen. H.M.S. Seagull. Read their Story. Pte. Owen Alexander Eugene Amos. 33rd Btn. Deck Hand Harvey Arnall. H.M. Trawler Sealark II. Read their Story. Pte. T. Arnold. 5th Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Bingley. 15th Btn. Cheshire Regiment Sapper Charles Henry Claude "Claude" Blackmore. 150th Field Company Royal Engineers Read their Story. L/Cpl. Edward Boardman. 1st Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers Read their Story. Sgt. John Breen. 1st Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Brown. 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers Read their Story. Spr. William Garvie Calder. 219th Field Company Royal Engineers Read their Story. L/Cpl. Thomas Henry Corner. 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Pte. Halliwell Dawson. 11th Btn. Manchester Regiment Read their Story. Capt. King Elmes. att. 2/16th London Regiment Royal Army Medical Corps Read their Story. Pte. Richard Flanaghan. 2nd/4th Btn. Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) Read their Story. Pte. Cyril Robert Fleetwood. 7th Btn. Royal Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Charles Lyall Gardner. 57th Coy. Machine Gun Corps Read their Story. Pte. Thomas John Girdwood. 17th Battalion Read their Story. Pte. George Frederick Graham. 12th Btn. Cheshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. George Frederick Graham. 12th Btn. Cheshire Regiment Read their Story. Lt. Samuel Lewis Honey. VC, DCM, MM 78th Battalion Lt. Samuel Lewis Honey. VC, DCM, MM 78th Btn. Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment), Read their Story. Pte. Francis Henry Hooper. 6th Btn. Dorsetshire Regiment Read their Story. Private Thomas Jenkins. King's Own Scottish Borderers Read their Story. Pte. Francis Kennedy. 18th Btn. Highland Light Infantry Walter G. Lanchester. 46th Btn. Machine Gun Corps Pte. Harry Midgley. 4th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Leonard Lantaff Miller. 13th Battalion Kings Regiment (Liverpool) Read their Story. Gnr. James Morrison. Argyll Mountain Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Read their Story. Gnr. James Morrison. 4th Argyll Mountain Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery L/Cpl. James Nisbet. D Coy, 6th Battalion Kings Own Scottish Borderers Read their Story. L/Cpl. Hay Ower. 18th Btn. Highland Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Herbert Prestwich. 1st Btn. Border Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Benjamin Rowlands. 2nd Btn. Eastern Ontario Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Frederick Scott. 12th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Cpl. John Sharman. 13th Btn. York and Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Percy Todd. 7th Btn. The Kings (Liverpool) Regiment Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

Previous Day     Next Day Select another Date Day: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31   Month: January February March April May June July August September October November December   Year: 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919

The free section of The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers. This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources and we currently have a huge backlog of submissions. If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small to help with the costs of keeping the site running. Hosted by: The Wartime Memories Project Website is archived for preservation by the British Library Copyright MCMXCIX - MMXXIV - All Rights Reserved - We do not permit the use of any content from this website for the training of LLMs or for use in Generative AI, it also may not be scraped for the purpose of creating other websites.