October 1917 On this day:  On the March  Hostile Guns Active  Daily Activity 2nd Essex & 2nd Lancs in action   2nd Essex & 2nd Lancs are in action at Poelcapple, with 12 Brigade. 1st Norfolks attack Polderhoek Chateau   In the early hours 1st Battalion Norfolk Regiment was involved in an attack on Polderhoek Chateau close to the Menin Road during the Third Battle of Ypres.  Training and Move  Artillery In Action    From Ecurie Camp, 26 ORs 18th DLI relieved similar party from D Co working under CRE Roclincourt. 18th DLI war diary WO95/2361/1  Working Parties  Reliefs  Reinforcements  In Billets  Reliefs  Working under RE  Bath time again  Inspection  Training  Training  In Reserve  Training  POW Captured  Training  Musketry   Escort Turkish Prisoners  Moved from Support trenches in the early morning for the attack on Polderhoek Chateau.  Posting  Poor Conditions  Patrols  Battalion bathed at Anzin St. Aubin  Wiring Practised  Relieved by 8th Seaforth Highlanders  No more movement of Tanks 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 October 1917. Able Seaman Joseph Johnson Abbott. S.S. Poldown. Read their Story. Pte John Adams. 6th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment Trimmer William Alcock. H.M.S. Champagne. Read their Story. James William Alexander. 20th Battalion (5th Pals) Manchester Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Albert Sydney Aley. 4th Btn. Petty Officer Stoker Angell. H.M.S. President III. Read their Story. L/Sgt. Joseph Boylan. 6th Btn. York and Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Lawrence Brady. 1st Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Charles Rawson Brooks. 2/8th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers Private Arthur Patrick "Paddy" Burke. 5th Pals service Manchester Read their Story. Pte. Rene Chable. 16th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment Sgt. Francis Chamberlain. 1st/4th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Cpl. William Clamp. VC 6th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Ernest Crofts. 10th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment Read their Story. Cpl. William Joseph Donnan. 2nd/9th Btn. Manchester Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. James Dooley. 2nd Btn Irish Guards Read their Story. Pte. James Dooley. 2nd Btn. Irish Guards Read their Story. 2nd Lt. Alymer Eade. 3rd Btn. The King's Regiment (Liverpool) Read their Story. Pte. Ernest East. 6th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment Read their Story. Sgt. Nathaniel Joshua Everard. 86th Coy. Machine Gun Corps Read their Story. William Charles Farr. 2nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers Read their Story. L/Cpl. Isaiah Fisher. 6th Btn York & Lancaster Regiment Read their Story. Pte John Fretwell. 1st/6th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment Pte. John William Gadsby. 1/8th Btn. Leeds Rifles West Yorkshire Regiment Pte. Frederick Albert Brownett Giles. 20th Btn. Manchester Regiment Pte. Joseph Greenhalgh. 2/9th Btn. Manchester Regiment Read their Story. Capt. Stanley Gummer. 5th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment Read their Story. Lt. Arthur Douglas Hogan. 21st Battalion Read their Story. Pte. Harry Howard. 4th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Bertram Huitson. 1/5th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment Read their Story. Pte. E. Jebbett. 149th Coy. Machine Gun Corps Pte. Richard Jones. 2nd Battalion, C Coy. Lancashire Fusiliers Read their Story. Cpl. Leonard "Aladdin" Law. 1/5th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment 2nd Lt. Charles Allen Learmonth. Read their Story. 2nd Lt. Arthur George Lovelace-Taylor. 1st Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment Pte. Fred Luscombe. 1/6th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Harold Marwood. 6th Btn. Pte. Cecil Frederick Muskett. A Coy. 1st Btn. Norfolk Regiment Pte. John William Norman. 2nd/9th Btn. Manchester Regiment Read their Story. 2nd Lt. Harold Northrop. 1/8 (Leeds Rifles) Btn West Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Matthias Ovington. 2/9th Btn. Manchester Regiment Pte. John Ernest Parry. 2/9th Btn. Manchester Regiment Pte. Archibald Thomas Parsons. 2nd Btn. Coldstream Guards Pte. Charles Edgar Phillips. 2nd Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Charles Edgar Phillips. 2nd Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. George Thomas Phillips. 2nd/6th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers Read their Story. L/Cpl. Arthur Raybould. 2nd Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Edward Reeves. MM. 8th Battalion York & Lancaster Regt. Read their Story. Capt. William Victor Trevor Rooper. 1 Sqd. Read their Story. Pte. John Schneider. 1st/4th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment Read their Story. Rfm. George Scott. 8h Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Private William Senior. 1st / 5th Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Frederick Shirtliff. York & Lancaster Regiment Cpl. Henry Shuttlewood. 1/6th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Dimitro Sinizki. 52nd Btn. Read their Story. Pte. George Snelgrove. 3rd Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Arthur Lewis Tate. 2nd Btn. Royal Fusiliers Read their Story. L/Cpl. Arthur Taylor. 2/4th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment Gunner Herbert Taylor. 119th Siege Bty Royal Garrison Artillery 2nd Lt. Walter Lincoln Thompson. 3rd Batalion Essex Regiment 2/Lt. Walter Lincoln Thompson. 2nd Btn. Essex Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Henry Francis Thundercliffe. 5th Btn. D Coy. 13 Pltoon. West Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Edward Charles Vale. Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry Read their Story. Joseph Harold Walker. 1/5th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment L/Cpl. Walter Wilkinson. 2/7th Btn. Manchester Regiment Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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