3rd May 1917 On this day:  Military Medals    At 4.05 a.m. A & B co's 1st S.L.I. go over the top, 3rd Battle of the Scarpe, Arras. Cpl Eli Jenkins of 1st Btn Killed in Action. Relocations   236th London Brigade Royal Field Artillery report first section of each Battery left for it's position in the line. The rest billets are taken over by 104 Brigade RFA. War Diaries  Assault Made  Staff Rides and new horses  Dressing Station Shelled  Assault Made  Scene of the Fight  Not Required    GAVRELLE The Battalion in trenches immediately west of GAVRELLE in support to 15th, 16th, & 18th WEST YORKS who were attacking on a wide front. (see appendix). 92nd Brigade on left, 9th Div on right. 18th DLI war diary WO95/2361/1  Attacks Made  Courts Martial  Casualties  Trench Work  In Billets  Attack Repulsed  In Reserve  In Reserve  New CO  Night Duty  Training  Camouflaged Enemy Works    Orders    Orders  In the Trenches  Conference  Training  95th Inf Bde Moves  Attack carried out  Operation Order received to move to Rocklincourt.  Relieved 10th Queens in Support near Voormezeele  Reliefs  Work  Attack Made  "Stood To" 1 hours notice 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, 3rd of May 1917. Pte. Bernard Henry Ades. 7th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John Aird. 2nd Btn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) Read their Story. Private Richard Henry Arnold. 2/5th Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. William Ashmead. 6th Battalion Kings Own Scottish Borderers Read their Story. Pte. Arthur Baker. 2nd Btn. Essex Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. Felix Benjamin Baker. 9th Battalion The Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Rfmn. George William Baldock. 5th Btn. London Regiment L/Cpl. Leonard George Ballard. 8th Btn Leicestershire Regiment Cpl. Francis John Barlow. 1st Btn. Royal Berkshire Regiment Pte. James Alfred Barnes. 8th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John Barrett. 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Herbert Batchelor. 2nd Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers Pte. John Henry Bell. 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. L/Cpl. James Bennet. 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Albert Berry. 18th Battalion, "B" Coy. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Albert Edward Bexfield. Durham Light Infantry Pte Alexander Blue. 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Pte. William James Bosustow. 22nd Battalion Read their Story. Pte. George Bradley. 1st Battallion East Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Samuel Henry Niblett Briscoe. 6th Btn. The Buffs (East Kent) Regiment 2nd Lt. Harold Vernon Brown. 8th Btn. East Surrey Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Harry Carlow. 1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment Read their Story. Rflmn. Arthur Chapple. 9th Battalion Rifle Brigade Pte. Edward Chipperfield. 1st (City of London) Btn. London Regiment Spr. R. Clarke. 1st Canadian Tunnelling Coy. Cpl. John Robert Claxton. 2nd Btn. Essex Regiment Gnr. Thomas Cocks. B Bty. 76th Brigade Royal Field Artillery Lt. Robert Grierson Combe. VC. 27th (City of Winnipeg) Battalion Read their Story. Pte. Harry Maltby Cooke. 8th Btn. Black Watch Read their Story. Pte. James Corke. 7th Battalion The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) Pte. John Albert Cottingham. 6th Battalion East Kent Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Archibald Craig. 16th (1st Bradford Pals) Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Ellis Dean. 2nd Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. William Donnellan. 2/5th Battalion Duke of Wellington West Riding Regiment Read their Story. Pte. William Eastman. MM. 8th Btn. East Surrey Regiemnt Read their Story. Pte. John Stanley Elliott. 5th Btn. Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry Pte. William George Fall. 1st Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. William George Fall. 1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John J. Forster. 18th Btn Durham Light Infantry Pte. Thomas Foye. 2nd Btn. Duke of Wellington's Regiment Read their Story. Rfm. Arthur Charles Franklin. 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Sgt. William Walter Gibbs. 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment Read their Story. Pte James "Sandy" Gibson. 12th Btn West Yorkshire Regiment Pte. Robert William Golding. 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Frank Graves. 7th Btn. Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Rgt. 2nd Lt. John Harrison. VC. 11th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Richard John Harrison. 8th Btn. East Surrey A/Cpl. Harry Louis Hilder. MM. 8th Btn. East Surrey Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. Frederick Hill. 1st Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Richard Hobbs. 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Sgt. Archibald John Hollingsworth. 12th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment Pte. Henry Francis Holloway. 2nd Btn. Essex Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Edmund Tyrer Houghton. 7th Btn Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Read their Story. Cpl. George Jarratt. VC. 8th Btn. Royal Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Stanley Jennings. 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. William Ernest Jones. 1st Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment Pte Robert Jubb. East Yorkshire Regiment Pte. Joseph Kane. 9th Battalion Cameronians Scottish Rifles Pte. William Kett. 3rd Garrison Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers Read their Story. Aubrey Wilfred Kitchen. 5th Batallion Oxfordshire and Bucks Light Infantry Pte. John Fredrick Lucas. 2/7th Btn. Duke of Wellington's West Riding Pte. Thomas Walter Maynard. 1st Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Dugald McMillan. 9th Btn Scottish Rifles Read their Story. L/Cpl. Harry Christmas Mendham. 2nd Btn. Essex Regiment Pte. Joseph Metcalfe. 5th Btn. West Yorks Read their Story. Pte. Charles Miles. 5th Btn. Cameron Highlanders Read their Story. L/Cpl. Thomas Albert Noel Milledge. 6th Btn. Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) Read their Story. L/Cpl. Henry Missen. 8th Battalion Rifle Brigade L/Cpl. Henry Missen. 8th Battalion Rifle Brigade Read their Story. L/Cpl. Henry Stanley Missen. 8th Battalion Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Sgt. Henry Walter Mitcell. 7th Battalion East Surrey Regiment Chap. Charles Wand Mitchell. East Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Moffat. 6th Btn. The King's Own Scottish Borderers Pte. Charles William Naughton. 19th Btn. Read their Story. Pte. William Eyre Ogilwy. 8th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment Pte. John Thomas Peace. 9th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment Pte,. Claude Pickard. 5th Battalion Cameron Highlanders Pte. Claude Ernest Pickard. 5th Battalion Cameron Highlanders Read their Story. Pte. Henry Pickton. 5th Btn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry L/Cpl. David Elder Robertson. 8th Btn. B Coy, 5 Platoon. Black Watch Read their Story. Pte. Samuel Loudon Rodgers. 5th Btn Cameron Highlanders Read their Story. Pte Oliver Roebuck. 2/5th Battalion Kings Yorkshire Light Infantry Pte. Steven Rudden. 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt) Pte. Arthur George Smith. London Rifle Brigade Gnr Henry Smith. 143rd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Pte. Richard Henry Smith. 10th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Edward Herbert Spink. 7th Btn. Border Regiment Rflmn. William Henry Still. 1st Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps Pte. Thomas Thurlow. 1st Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Ernest Tripcony. 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Arthur Turner. 2nd Battalion London Regiment Read their Story. Sgt John Joseph Walker. MM 8th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps Pte. Harry Greenwood Walsh. 2/6th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) William S Wark. 6th Btn. King's Own Scottish Borderers Read their Story. Gnr. James Watson. 36th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Read their Story. Pte. Robert Charles Watson. 7th Battalion East Kent Regiment Cpl. William Howell Powell Westwood. 2/5th Btn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Pte. George Henry White. 5th Btn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Read their Story. 2nd Lt. Arnold Wilson. 5th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Frederick Woods. 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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