August 1917 On this day:  On the Move 16th Lancs relieve 16th Northumberlands   16th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers relieved by 16 Btn Lancashire Fusiliers. The Northumberlands move to Ribaillet camp for seven unpleasant days. Activity in Front Line   245 Machine Gun Company Mercatel and trenches. At 1100, the practice barrage of the previous day was repeated. Zero hour for the raid was at 0745 and rapid fire was maintained for 90 minutes. One NCO was wounded and sent to 20th Casualty Clearing Centre. A suggestion was forwarded to the DMGO that relief of guns in the Right Sector should take place on the night of 13/14th August and in the Left Sector on the night of the 12/13th August. One OR was wounded in Egret Trench. War Diaries  Ongoing training  Heavy Shelling  Turnips  Training  Route March  In Camp  Refitting  Reliefs  Hostile Heavies  German raid  Heavy Rain  Patrols  In Billets  Enemy Aircraft  Training  Training  Active Aircraft      New bomber squadron formed  Heavy Shelling  Concentrations Fired  Cleaning Up  Training  Diary  Training  Training and Classes  German Guns Active  Classes of instruction continued.  Battalion relieved by 1st Devon Regt. 95th Brigade.  Officer Wounded.  At Rest  Enemy planes over again  Planes Active  Companies under Company Commanders for training.  New RFC Training Squadrons formed in Egypt  ZERO day altereed from 13th inst to 14th inst.  1/7th Scot. Rifles wired  New training squadron formed 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, of August 1917. Ordinary Seaman Evan John Allen. H.M.S. Recruit. Read their Story. Stoker 1st Class Albert Alfred Nathaniel Ansell. H.M.S. Recruit. Read their Story. Able Sea. Enoch Barton. HMS Vanguard Read their Story. Pte. William Brown. 13th Btn. Cheshire Rgt. Pte. James Cassidy. 10th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusillers Rflmn. Robert James Funnell. 3rd Battalion Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. Percy Harold Harwood. 7th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Frank Hollingsworth. 1st Btn. Monmouth Regiment Read their Story. Spr. Claude Livingstone. 1st Canadian Tunnelling Coy. L/Cpl. George Cyril Stanley Mann. 8th Btn. East Surrey Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Frank Middleton. 11th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers Read their Story. Cpl. William Nolan. 103rd Brigade Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. L/Cpl. David Orrells. 3rd Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Act. Bmbdr. George Arthur Porter. 173rd Brigade, A Bty Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Stoker Abdur Rahman. Read their Story. Drvr. W. Read. 173rd Brigade, C Bty Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Rfmn. Charles Joseph Sixt. 15th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. CPO Robert Lethbridge Stone. MID H.M.S. Recruit Read their Story. Pte. George Stout. 19th Btn Durham Light Infantry Pte. Harry Wood. 13th Btn. Cheshire Regiment Add a name to this list.

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