16th September 1916 On this day:  Moves 150th MCG in action.   150th Machine Gun Corps are in action at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette  Trench activity  Carrying Parties  Stand by  Attack Made  No News  Failled Attack  Military Cross for RSM  Attack made  Situation Uncertain Reliefs   Fair. Very quiet. 18th DLI are relieved in the Neuve Chapelle Sector by 2/6th Gloucesters on Left from Signpost Lane to Fifteenth St and on the Right by 7th Worcesters. No casualties. 18th Battalion, DLI moved into billets at Vielle Chapelle. 18th DLI war diary WO95/2361/1  Artillery Active  Medals Presented  Tanks in Action  Reliefs Completed  Quiet  Crawling Back  Training  A Bombardment  Unresponsive Enemy  Training  Shelling  Aircraft  Reliefs  Orders  Ground Gained    Reliefs   POWs Taken  On the March  Bombardment  Stores  Outposts  Shelling  Preparations  Working Parties  Diary  Prepare to Move  A quiet day.  The working party tonight numbers 8 Officers and 320 men.  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft Lost  Aircraft damaged Posting   Capt. Foxell was transferred to A Coy 7th Buffs as Second in Command of Coy. 7th Buffs war diary WO95/2049  Left Morlancourt at 0330 hours and marched to camp at Citadel.  Shelling  Return  Shortage of Horse Fodder  Orders Received  Attack Made  Operations on the Brigade front  On the Move   Training  Large number of Casualties  In Action  On the March  Operation Orders  To. O.C. Companies.  44th Inf. Bde. relieves the 45th  50th Division attack on Pruetrebut  Bombardment  Improvements 6th Somersets in action   6th Somerset Light Infantry attacked Flers-Courcelette on the Somme at 09:25 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, 16th of September 1916. Pte. Charles Edward Adams. 6th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Charles Edward Adams. 6th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Banks. 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Pte. Ernest Bawdon. 6th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Charles William Bellamy. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Joseph Brady. 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Edwin Brettell. 10th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. L/Cpl. Thomas Henry Bullock. 6th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Sydney Ernest Victor Busley. 2nd Bn. Coldstream Guards Read their Story. Pte. John Alfred William Clarke. 9th Bn Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Kings Own Yo Read their Story. Pte. Frank Malcolm Louis Clement. 1/23rd Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Charles George Clift. 6th Btn. Prince Albert's Somerset Light Infantry Pte. Harold Cooper. 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards Read their Story. Pte. Shadrach Corbett. 1st Btn. Welsh Guards Read their Story. Maj. Gerald Warre Cornish. 6th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Donald James Cowap. 12th Btn. Kings Regiment (Liverpool) Read their Story. Pte. George Coxon. 1/8th Btn. Middlesex Regiment Read their Story. S/Sgt. John Alfred Eric Crawford. Read their Story. Pte. Henry Charles Durnford. 6th Btn. Somerset Regiment Pte. Harry William Edmonds. 6th Battalion Royal Irish Regiment Read their Story. Sjt. T. Estill. Durham Light Infantry Pte. Thomas Richard James Exton. 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry L/Cpl. Harry Flint. 2nd Btn. Coldstream Guards Pte. Edward Foley. 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. George Scott Forrest. 1st Btn East Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Randolph Galpin. 2nd Btn. Coldstream Guards Read their Story. Pte. William Giblin. 10th Battalion Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. AWO. Thomas Henry Greenwood. 4th Btn. West Riding Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John Hadden. 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Pte. James A. Haddock. 12th Btn. Yorks & Lancs Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. Henry Edward Halsall. 12th Btn. Kings (Liverpool) Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. William John Harrington. 10th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Cyril Higginbottom. 6th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Joseph Hogg. 9th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Pte. William Holmes. 5th Btn. Border Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Philip John Holton. 9th Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. A/Cpl. John Hudson. 9th Battalion Norfolk Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John Hullock. 10th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Sjt. William George Hunt. 7th Btn. A Coy Somerset Light Infantry Read their Story. Sgt. Joseph Beaumont Lauder. MM 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry 2Lt. Thomas Herbert Leason. 9th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. George Edward Lloyd. A Coy 1st/22nd Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Lt. Hubert Malcolmson. 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. Robert Maughan. 6th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry Read their Story. L/Cpl. William Henry Mills. 1st Btn. Leicestershire Regiment Pte. Joseph John Milton. 6th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. James Monaghan. 7th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Pte. James Loftus Moreland. 6th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. John Brown Nicholson. 10th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Pte. John Edward Noble. Durham Light Infantry Pte. George Nutbrown. 5th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Pte Wilfred Raven. 15th Btn Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. John Thomas Richardson. 15 Battalion Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Sgt. Robert A Roberts. 6th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry Pte. Henry Salkeld. 10th Battalion Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte James Scarr. 6th Btn Durham Light Infantry Cpl. Arthur Shakeshaft. 6th Btn Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Arthur Smith. 9th Battalion Suffolk Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Arthur Robert Smy. 9th Btn. Suffolk Regiment Read their Story. Spr. Herbert Speller. 179th Company Royal Engineers Read their Story. Pte. Joseph Stanton. 1st Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Morris William Stearns. 9th Btn. Suffolk Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Henry Tansley. 9th Btn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Pte. George Taylor. 1/7th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. L/Cpl. William Taylor. 1/7th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. William Horace Torode. 10th (Battersea) Battalion Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Theophilus Upshall. 6th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry Pte. William Vearer. 9th Btn. Suffolk Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Arthur Warne. 9th Btn. Suffolk Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Leonard James Webb. 23rd Btn. C Coy London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Welch. 11th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Arthur Whitbread. 4th Btn. West Riding Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Peter Willey. 1st/23rd Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Peter Willey. 1/23rd Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. J. Woods. 10th Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Read their Story. Pte Reginald Henry Woof. 6th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Capt. William Charles Woollett. 9th Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Private Thomas Lees Young. 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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