3rd June 1917 On this day: Batteries in action   236th London Brigade Royal Field Artillery Batteries firing all day on roads etc. and counter Battery work with gas shells carried out during the whole night by howitzer batteries. HQ was bombarded by gas shells heavily for two hours during the night.  Church Parade On the March   18th Battalion DLI vacated billets at 2.0pm and marched to camp in G.6.a near Roclincourtm vacated by 10th East Yorkshire Regiment 93rd Bde. and takes over work on roads and Red Line from 92nd Bde. 18th DLI war diary WO95/2361/1  Very Warm Day  Reliefs  Trench Work  16 Prisoners Taken  Organising for action  Reliefs  Reliefs  Trench Work  In Billets  Night Bombardment  Enemy Aircraft  Trench Work  Attack Practised  Operation Attack Order  Diary  In the line  In Action    Artillery in Action  Bombardment  Transfers  Church Parade  Rocklincourt and Ecurie bombed by aeroplane at night.  Heavy Artillery bombarded hostile positions  Operational Order 161.  Model Viewed  Church Parades  Church Parades 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 3rd of June 1917? There are:30 items tagged 3rd of June 1917 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, 3rd of June 1917. Rfmn. William Cooke. 1/17th Battalion (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) London Regiment Read their Story. Dvr. Charles Arthur Daniels. 103rd Bde. D Bty Royal Field Artillery Gnr. Andrew Doyle. 256th Siege Battery Pte. Richard Hartshorne. 8th. Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment Read their Story. Cpl. William Frederick Howe. 17th Btn. Middlesex Regiment Pte. Charles M. Milligan. 10th Btn. Cameronian Scottish Rifles Read their Story. L/Cpl. Oswald Thomas Monckton. 7th Btn. Royal West Kent Regiment Dvr. H. Mosley. 102nd Bde. B Bty Royal Field Artillery Sgt. John Mutton. 106 Bde. Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Pte. Edward Nevin. 20th Battalion Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. John George Pattison. VC. 50th Btn. Alberta Regiment Read their Story. Pte Alfred J. Perry. 13th Battalion Dorset Regiment Read their Story. Ld.Str. W. Phillips. HMS Vivid Read their Story. Rifleman Henry George Seccombe. 16th Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Rflmn. Thomas Edward Silk. 18th (Arts and Crafts) Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Pte. Samuel Livingstone Sowden. 2nd R.M. Battalion Royal Marine Light Infantry Read their Story. John Taylor. 1st/5th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment Rfn Leonard T Uden. 1st/5th Btn London 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.