20th July 1916 On this day: Enemy Mine Blown   236th London Brigade Royal Field Artillery report: Quiet all day. Enemy blew up mine by Double Crassier at 2230. War Diaries  Reliefs  Trenches inspection  Mounted work and courses  Heavy Shelling  Unloading Stores  Attack Expected  Kept Busy  Reliefs Completed  Counter Attack  In Action  Reliefs  Shelling  In Billets  On the Train  Orders    On the March  Casualties  On the Move  Orders      On the March  Orders  Inspection  Attack Made  Shelling  Attack Made  Defence Work  On the March  Training  Counter Battery  Move  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft Lost  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  In Brigade Reserve Billets  Shelling  On the Move  High Wood  Positions of Units  Relief Completed  Wire Cutting  Orders  In Billets  Very heavy Artillery Fire  joined from East Surrey Regt.  Quiet Time in La Neuville  Working Parties  Schedule 20th July 1916  Training  Busy  Message  Wire received  B.M.2008 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, 20th of July 1916. Pte Percy Adamson. 4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment Pte. Albert Almond. 16th Btn. King's Royal Rifles Read their Story. Cpt. Charles Edward Anderson. 2nd Btn. Gordon Highlanders Read their Story. L/Cpl. George Anderson. 7th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment A/Sgt. Robert Bates. 59th Field Coy Corps Of Royal Engineers Read their Story. Pte. William Millar Bird. 9th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Alfred Isles Bloy. 18th (4th Glasgow) Battalion Highland Light Infantry Read their Story. L/Cpl. James Boe. 4th Battalion Read their Story. Pte. Frederick William Bulwer. 10th Battalion Essex Regiment Read their Story. Capt. William Henry Langdon Burgess. MID. 3rd Btn. Cameronions Scottish Rifles Read their Story. Pte. Andrew Cassell. 23rd Battalion Manchester Major. William La Touche Congreve. VC, DSO, MC, MID. Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. John Eaden Cook. 20th Battalion Royal Fusiliers Read their Story. Cpl. John Francis Daly. 10th Btn., A Company Essex Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John William Eddom. 13th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment Pte. John Foster. 1st Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers Pte John Joseph Fowell. 23rd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Read their Story. Pte. Leonard Gibbons. 2/4th Btn. Royal Berkshire Regiment Read their Story. Cpm Sgt. Major Walter Charles Gorin. 23 Battalion ( Bantam) Manchester Regiment Read their Story. Lascar Abdul Hamid. Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Arthur Jones. 10th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Robert Kay. 23rd Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Read their Story. Pte. William Laurie. 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment Read their Story. Sgt David James Lewis. 10th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Pte. Cephas Alexander Maynard. 20th Battalion Royal Fusiliers Cpl Francis Joseph Moore. 8th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment Pte. Raymond George Murray. 30th Btn. Australian Imperial Force Pte. Joshua Joseph Page. 10th Btn. Essex Regiment L/Cpl Reginald James Sheppard. 10th Btn. Essex Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Hughie James Sontag. 1st Btn., D.Coy. Royal West Kent Regiment Pte. Hughie James Sontag. 1st Battalion, D Coy Queens Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) Read their Story. Pte. Hughie James Sontag. 1st Btn. D Coy. Royal West Kent Regiment Read their Story. Pte. William Stevens. 2nd Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Pte. Alfred Claude Thomas. 10th Btn. Royal Welch Fusiliers Cpl. Harold Tuffery. MM. 1st Btn. Devonshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Frederick George Weeks. 12th Btn Gloucestershire Pte James Whalen. 1st Btn Lancashire Fuseliers Pte. Philip Wilkinson. 23rd Battalion Manchester Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Charles Alfred William Williams. 10 Battalion Essex Regiment Read their Story. Cpl. John Willoughby. 1st Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Read their Story. Pte. Robert Albert Wynne. MM 10th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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