31st July 1916 On this day:  Attack Made  Orders   Inspections   236th London Brigade Royal Field Artillery at Aubrometz. Batteries at disposal of Battery Commanders. OC. Brigade and Adjutant with representatives of each battery, inspected the guns of the 21st Division which have just withdrawn from action at the S. War Diaries  Mounted work and Regimental Strength  Further casualties  Heavy Work  Battery Split  Bombs Dropped  Difficult Conditions  Effects of Gas  Bathing  Training  On the Move  Light Shelling  More Relief  Back to Kortepyp Billets  Advance Party  Grenades    Training  Holding the Line  In Support  On the Move  Orders    Working Parties  Artillery Fairly Active  In the Trenches  War News  Fairy Tales  Protest  Regulations  Training  Orders Received  Training  On the March  Fairy Tales  Counter Battery Work  Reliefs Complete  Reorganisation  Consolidation  Report  KOSBs Hold Line  Artillery Active  Rifles inspected  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  In the Fron Line  1430 hours. Left bivouac and marched to Longueval & Delville Wood.  Left bivouac at Pommier and marched to Longueval & Delville Wood.  Owing to the very heavy poisoned gas-shell 2245 hours barrage in Valley North of Montauban the whole Battalion had to put on gas helmets.  Officers Casualties July 1916.  Trench Work  In billets  Operational Order No.97  Report  Reliefs  Drill and Baths  Under Pressure  On the March  In the trenches  Reinforcements since 19th July 1916  Enemy Aeroplanes arrived  B.M.2205 issued to units  Bivouac Rest  Bivouacs in Becourt Wood 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, 31st of July 1916. Pte. Reginald Binns. 2nd Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. William Arthur Clarke. 13th Btn. Essex Regiment Tpr. Henry Roland Davis. New Zealand Training Unit Read their Story. Pte. Ernest Arthur Green. 13th (West Ham Boys) Btn. Essex Regiment Read their Story. Lascar Ali Husain. Read their Story. Pte. Daniel McGlade. 6th Battalion Connaught Rangers Read their Story. Sgt. John William Money. MM. 64th Company Machine Gun Corps Read their Story. Pte. Albert "Sparrow" Parr. 1st Btn. Manchester Regiment Private Luke Potts. 174 Tunn. Coy. RE Royal Engineers Read their Story. Pte. Wilfred James Powell. 21st Motor Transport Coy. Army Service Corps Read their Story. Lascar Abdur Rahman. Read their Story. Pte. John Roberts. 8th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte Samuel James Sandercock. 10th Btn Duke of Cornwall Light Infantary Read their Story. Pte. Robert Price Saunderson. 2nd Btn. Kings Own Scottish Borderers Read their Story. Pte. Geoffrey Slater. Bedfordshire Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. Percy Harold Smalley. 7th Btn. Kings Own (Lancaster) Regiment Pte. Robert Turner. 7th Battalion Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) Add a name to this list.

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