31st July 1917 On this day: 16th Northumberland Fusiliers move up   The 16th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers move up from the coast defences at Bray Dunes to Coxyde because of very heavy casualties in 49 Division whcih suffered their first experience of mustard gas.  Reconnassance 124th Heavy Battery in action at The Somme   124th Heavy Battery RGA are in action at the 3rd Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) Liverpool Scottish advance   Early in the morning of the 31st of July 1917 the Liverpool Scottish advanced from Wieltje, supported by two tanks, to take their objective of Capricorn Trench. The Medical Officer of the 10th Btn, Capt Chavasse VC, set up the Regimental Aid Post close the front line in a captured enemy dugout near Setques Farm. He suffered a head injury early in the attack and walked back to the Main Dressing Station at Wieltje but returned to run the RAP after treatment. He was seriously wounded twice more but refused to leave his post, going out several times under heavy fire to bring in wounded. Drama at Liverpool Scottish Regimental Aid Post   The Medical Officer of the 10th Btn, Liverpool Scottish, Capt Chavasse VC, had been on duty at the Regimental Aid Post close the front line in a captured enemy dugout near Setques Farm since the attack on the 31st of July. He was still on duty when he was mortally wounded on 2nd of August when a shell penetrated the dugout. He was taken to the No.32 Casualty Clearing Station at Brandhoek which specialised in abdominal wounds. 245 MGC Setting up base camp   245 Machine Gun Company having arrived now at its base near Mercatel, commenced work erecting huts and tents and generally settling in. One man was sent to VII Corps Rest Station, sick. War Diaries  Ongoing training and Letter from 1 Corps Commander  1st Bty RFA in Heavy Action  RE8's Patrol  Raids  In Action  New Group  Operational Action    IN L4 SECTOR T.13.6.7.2 In line. Quiet day. 18th DLI war diary WO95/2361/1  Route March  In Action  In Action  In Action  Training  In Action  Training  Attack Made  In Action  In Action  In Action  In Action  Machine Guns  Shelling  Attack Made  In Action  Attack Made  In Action  The Colonel's Parade  Training & Baths  In Action  In Action  In Reserve  In Action  Shelling  Attack Made  Training  An Attack  Holding the Line        In Action  Post Not Established  In Reserve  Infantry Attack  In Div Reserve  Attachment  Diary  Parades  Attack Made   Enemy Increases Artillery Fire  Raid Attempted  Brigade sector very quiet.  Postings  Into Position  Brigade Aquatic Sports Event  Battalion drill  Shell Falls  Attack Made  General attack  Account of Operations of this Battalion.  The 18th Corps. attacked  Pioneer Battalions moving in  52nd Division Order. No. 64.  52nd Division Operational Order No.64  Strength as at 31st May 1917.  Trained under Company arrangements.  Operations with 5th Army 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 1917. Pte. James Abbott. 11th (1st South Down) Btn. Royal Sussex Regiment Read their Story. Flight Sub-Lieutenant William Allaway. Read their Story. Arthur Allen. 8th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment Pte. George Archibald. 4/5th (Angus and Dundee) Battalion Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) Read their Story. Pte. Robert Ashworth. 8th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Pte Harry Austin. 17th Btn Royal Welsh Fusiliers Read their Story. Rfmn. Ernest Bailey. 2nd Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. James Bain. 6th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders Pte. Joseph Bain. 1/3rd (West Lancs) Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Read their Story. Gdsmn. Robert Barbour. 2nd Battalion Scots Guards Read their Story. Pte. Arthur John Barnes. 16th (St. Pancras) Battalion Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. Henry Barnett. 1st Btn. Sherwood Foresters Read their Story. Pte. Arthur Bennison. 23rd (2nd Football) Battalion Middlesex Regiment Pte. Thomas Birmingham. 2nd Btn. Irish Guards Spr. Wilfred Henry Bland. 1st Canadian Tunnelling Coy. Pte. Walter Ainger Brooks. 2nd Btn. Read their Story. L/Cpl. George Walford Brown. 3rd Battalion Rifles British Army Sgt. George Thomas Brown. DCM 17th Coy. Machine Gun Corps Read their Story. Pte. William Cahill. 7th Btn. Leinster Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Charles Ronald Campbell. 7th Btn. Black Watch Pte. William James Campbell. 1st/6th Btn. Gordon Highlanders Read their Story. CSM John Harry Clayton. MMil. 8th Btn. Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment Capt. Thomas Riversdale Colyer-Fergusson. VC. 2nd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, Read their Story. Capt. Thomas Riversdale Colyer-Fergusson. VC. 2nd Btn. Northamptonshire Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl Arthur W. Concannon. MM. 1st Battalion Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment Read their Story. L/Sgt. James Connell. MM 2nd Batalion Middlesex Regiment Sgt. James Connell. MM 2nd Btn. Middlesex Regiment Pte. John Coonan. 7th Btn. Leinster Regiment Sgt. Alfred James Cross. DCM. 2nd Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. William Walter Cross. 17th (1st City) Btn. King's (Liverpool) Regiment Pte. James Curran. 6/7th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Walter Davidson. 6th Btn Blackwatch Read their Story. Cpl. James Llewellyn Davies. VC The Royal Welch Fusiliers Robert Edward Davies. 16th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. John Duffy. att. 258 Tunnelling Company RE. Royal Scots Fusiliers Read their Story. L/Cpl. William Ellison. 1/9th Btn. King's Liverpool Regiment Read their Story. Pte George Charles Ensby. 12 Btn. Royal Fusiliers Pte. Joseph Ewan. 12th Btn. Highland Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. John Ferguson. 10th Btn. Welsh Regiment Rflm. Percival Alexander Ferry. 16th Btn. Rifle Brigade Francis Fillary. 12th Battalion Royal Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Norman Fraser. 8th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders Pte. Joseph Kelsall Fyfe. 7th Battalion King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Pte. Joseph Kelsall Fyfe. 7th Btn. Kings Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment Private Alexander Gray. 18th Battalion Highland Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Walter Joseph Gray. 4th Battalion, A Company Middlesex Regiment L/Cpl. Frederick George Hanna. 6th Btn. Queens Own Cameron Highlanders Read their Story. Pte. Rostron Haworth. 2nd Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Herbert Thomas Hayward. 12th Btn. Royal Fusiliers L/Sgt. George Hendrie. 2nd Btn. Devonshire Regiment Read their Story. 2nd Lt. Dennis George Wyldbore Hewitt. VC. 2nd Btn. Hampshire Regiment Read their Story. Rfmn. Arthur Hill. 1st/5th Btn. King's Liverpool Regiment Read their Story. Sgt. William Hopkinson. 11th Btn. Sherwood Foresters L/Cpl. William James Horsman. 2nd Btn. ÃÆ??Ã?Ã? A Coy. Middlesex Regiment Read their Story. Pte Edwin Thomas Howell. 8th Btn Somerset Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Frederick James Jacques. 23rd Btn. B Coy. Middlesex Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Joicey. 8th Battalion King's Regiment (Liverpool) Read their Story. Lt. Harold Madoc Jones. MID. 17th Battalion, C Coy. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. James Joynson. 11th (2nd Gwent) Btn. South Wales Borderers Read their Story. Pte. William Kavanagh. 7th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. William Kent. 10th Btn. Royal West Kent Regiment Read their Story. Cpl. Reginald Frederick Kiff. 4th Btn. Middlesex Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Arthur William James Knightbridge. 8th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry Francis Ledwidge. 5th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Read their Story. Capt. Jack Lee. MC. 6th Btn. Cheshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Claude Clement Phinehas Lillington. 2/4th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment Pte. R. Logan. 10th Btn Scottish Rifles Pte. James Brown Low. 1/6th (Perthshire) Btn. A Coy. Black Watch Read their Story. Drvr. John James Mandale. 173rd Brigade, A Bty Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. 2nd Lt. Percy Charles Mann. 17th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Pte. William John McAuley. 8/10th Btn. Gordon Highlanders Pte. Ernest Meadows. 1st Batallion Sherwood Foresters L/Sjt. Stanley Bertram Miller. 1st Battalion Cambridgeshire Regiment Read their Story. L/Sgt. George Morley. 8th Btn. Suffolk Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John Ulrich Moss. 1/7th Btn. King's (Liverpool) Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Mullaly. 7th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Cpl. William Nicholson. 1/4th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Bert Patrick. 12th Btn. Royal Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. William Henry Paul. No 6 Platoon South Wales Borderers Read their Story. Bmbdr. R. C. Pearson. 173rd Brigade, C Bty Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. L/Cpl. Major Phillips. 11th Battalion South Wales Borderers Read their Story. RSM. Albert Edward Pollard. MM. 6/7th Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Walter Powell. 10th (1st Rhondda) Battalion Welch Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Robert William Putterill. 6th (Service) Btn. Royal Berkshire Regiment Read their Story. Cpl. Edward Kingsford Radley. 8th Btn. A Coy. Somerset Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Frederick William Rolfe. 7th Btn. Leinster Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Charles Sargent. 8th Battalion Suffolk Regiment Read their Story. Drvr. Robert James Smith. 173rd Brigade, A  Bty Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. L/Cpl. Frederick Herbert Steward. MM. 12th Btn Royal Fusiliers Read their Story. Capt. Jack Loudon Strain. MID. 214th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Read their Story. Cpl. George Alfred Tarry. 7th Battalion Northampton Regiment Pte. John Joseph Tasker. 2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment Read their Story. Cpl. Charles Taylor. 10th Btn. Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment Pte. Henry Louis Taylor. 12th Battalion Royal Fusiliers Wilson James Taylor. 207th Coy. Machine Gun Corps Pte. John Frederick Thompson. 20th Battalion Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte William Hercules Todd. 8th/10th Bn. Gordon Highlanders Pte. Leslie Topliss. 17th Btn. Sherwood Foresters Read their Story. Pte. William Trull. 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards Read their Story. Spr. Herbert Wardle. MM. 234 Fld. Coy. Royal Engineers Read their Story. Spr. Herbert Wardle. MM. 234th Coy. Royal Engineers Read their Story. Pte. Amos Warr. 11th Btn. South Wales Borderers Read their Story. Pte. Moses Thomas Watkin. 17th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusilliers Pte. William Webster. 1st Battalion London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John Frederick White. 3rd Wessex Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Read their Story. Pte. John Owen Williams. 1st/10th Btn. The King's Liverpool Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. William Ernest Wiseman. 3rd Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. Charles Edward Withall. 42nd Btn. Pte. Walter Woodward. 7th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Walter Woodward. 7th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Walter Woodward. 7th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Rflmn. George Wright. 16th Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte William Henry Young. 17th Battalion Kings (Liverpool) Regiment Add a name to this list.

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