23rd October 1918 On this day: Fire at Lemington Munitions Works   A fire at Lemmington Munitions Works was sucessfully extinquished. http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=74798 On the Move   9th (North Irish Horse), Royal Irish Fusiliers report "1st Royal Irish Fusiliers reached Heinweg [Heirweg?] but French were held up on railway. At 1330 Battalion moved to Leemput (I.4.b). Strength of Battalion: 15 Officers, 350 Other Ranks." War Diaries  Further Action  2nd Argylls in action  Guns moved up  In Billets  Training & Sports  Active Batteries  Route March & Working Parties  Clearing up  Orders  Quiet  Germans Withdraw  Reliefs  Relieved  Standing to  Battalion moved to assembly positions, Sunken road between Solesmes and Vertain  Battalion advanced in Artillery Formation taking up a position NE. of the village of Beaurain  Heavy Bombardment  We remained in area O.16.b. & O.17.a.  On the Move  Operational Orders No.71.  Company Parades  Battalion S.B.R's inspected  C.O. visited Companies 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, 23rd of October 1918. Pte. James Adamson. 2nd Btn. Highland Light Infantry Read their Story. Able Seaman Atkinson. H.M.S. Sprightly. Read their Story. Pte. Percy Benwell. Welsh Regiment, 9th Btn. Army Service Corps Read their Story. Pte. William George Bohannan. 7th Battalion East Kent Regiment Pte. George Bonds. 1st Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment L/Cpl. Fred Breed. 1st Battalion Scottish Rifles Read their Story. Drv. Edward Briscoe. Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Pte. Peter Bruce. 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders Pte. Frederick Butt. 9th Btn. Norfolk Regiment Read their Story. A/Cpl. Thomas Cawkwell. 2nd Btn. Royal Scots Read their Story. Pte Alfred Coates. 1st Btn East Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. James Connor. 1st Btn. Wiltshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John Joseph Daly. 8th Btn. Kings Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Ernest Davison. 1st Btn. Cheshire Regiment Pte. Robert Donnelly. 1st Garrison Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte Thomas Richard Durber. 10th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment Dvr. John Thomas Eastwood. 107th Bde, B Bty. Rfmn. Sidney Gentle. 15th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Pte. James Halsall. 1st Btn. Cheshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Benjamin John Hart. 20th Btn. Manchester Regiment Sapper Edgar John Heap. 130th Field Company Royal Engineers Capt. Abraham Jassinowsky. Read their Story. Pte. Frank Keen. 8th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. George Thomas Kirk. 8th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. George Thomas Kirk. 1/8th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers Read their Story. Sgt. William Urwin Clifford Knox. Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Myles McDonnell. 1st Btn. Cheshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Bernard McEvoy. 15th (The King's) Hussars Read their Story. Sgt. Hanry James Nicholas. VC, MM. 12th Nelson Coy. 1st Bn. Canterbury Regiment Read their Story. Sgt. Henry James Nicholas. VC, MM. 1st Btn Canterbury Infantry Regiment Read their Story. Gnr. Harry Oliver. B Battery, 122nd Brigade Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Pte. Cyril Panter. 2nd Btn. Bedfordshire Regiment Pte. Leonard Peake. 6th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment Read their Story. CSM. Joseph Robinson. MM. 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. David Taylor. 1st Btn. West Surrey Regiment Capt. Edward Roy Taylor. MC. 1st Battalion South Wales Borderers Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Waller. 14th (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry) Battalion Black Watch Pte. Samuel Wicks Waters. 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Private Andrew Webb. 14th (Fife & Forfar Yeomanry) Btn. Black Watch Pte. Percival White. 8th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment Pte. James Stanley Whitwell. 2nd Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. William Wild. 11th Btn. Sherwood Foresters Pte. James Worrall. 282 Brigade, A Bty. Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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