30th July 1916 On this day:  On the Move Zeppelin Raids on Britain   30th/31st July and 2/3rd August 1916 Adverse weather dispersed two Zeppelin raids on 30,31 July and 2,3 August. John Doran  Charge Ready  Church services and Hotchkiss Drill  Further casualties  Another Hot Day  In Action  Air Combat  Fresh Water Expected  Huge Explosion  Trench Work  In Billets  Attack Made  Working Party  A Take Over  Relief Completed    On the March  Reliefs  Orders  Orders      Working Parties  German Working Parties  In the Trenches  Quiet  Reinforcements  Church Parade  On the March  Training  On the March  Trenches Targeted  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft Lost  Aircraft damaged  Holding the Line  Attack Made  Artillery Active  Shelling  Divine Service.  Aircraft damaged  Aircraft Lost  Aircraft Lost  Aircraft damaged  Reliefs  Found carrying fatigues  Attack Made  Trench Work  Battalion marched to Blangemont  Attack Made  In Action  Relieved  Very Busy  Warning order  Message  Operation Orders  Battalion March Table 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, 30th of July 1916. Cpl. John Bentham. 2nd Btn. East Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Reginald Binns. 2nd Btn. Runner Royal Scots Fusiliers Read their Story. L/Cpl. Archie Booth. 18th Btn. Manchester Regiment Read their Story. Cpl. Joseph Brownlee. 12th Battalion Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Percy Burtenshaw. 2nd Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers Pte. David Caine. 17th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) Read their Story. Pte. George Ernest Chandler. 11th Btn. Royal Berkshire Sgt. Alfred J. Chitty. 10th Btn. Duke of Wellington's Regiment Pte. Frank Cockshott. 18th (2nd Bradford) Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment Pte. Charles William Cope. 18th Btn. Manchester Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Norman Cowie. D Coy, 10th/11th Battalion Highland Light Infantry Pte. Harry Dickman. 16th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. John Ellis. 6th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment Pte. Percy James Evans. 5th Btn. D Coy. South Wales Borderers Read their Story. Pte. Declan Thomas Fegan. 2nd Btn. Royal Scots 2nd Lt. Richard George Hart. 10th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment L/Cpl. George Hague Hatfield. 24th Btn. Royal Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Leonard Maelor Jones. 17th Btn King's Own Liverpool Regiment Read their Story. Pte. William Lamb. 6th Perthshire Btn. Black Watch Read their Story. Pte. Frederick Lamble. 11th Btn. Royal Berkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Joseph Henry Lapslie. 18th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. G. H. Lawton. 17th Btn. Sherwood Foresters Read their Story. L/Cpl. George Edwin Marples. 2nd Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers Pte. Bertie McCubbin. 17th Btn Sherwood Foresters Read their Story. L/Cpl. Terence McSherry. 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers Read their Story. L/Cpl. Terence McSherry. 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. James Miller. VC. 7th Btn. King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Archibald Nicol. 10th/11th Btn. Highland Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Albert William Osgood. 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment Read their Story. Albert "Sparrow" Parr. 1st Btn. Manchester Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Jesse Platt. 10th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Benjamin Wilfred Ridgway. 15th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers Read their Story. CSM. Edward Roberts. MM. 10th Btn Royal Welsh Fusiliers Pte. J. W. Roberts. 2nd Bn Canadian Mounted Rifles Read their Story. Pte. Patrick Joseph Russell. 17th Btn. Kings Liverpool Regiment Sjt. William Elias Skidmore. DCM 2nd Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Lawrence Smart. 2nd Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers Read their Story. CSM. Thomas Chester Smyth. 19th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Charles Edward Stewart. 6th Battalion Black Watch Read their Story. Pte. William Stewart. 6th Btn. Black Watch Read their Story. Pte. Frank Walker. 17th (1st City) Btn. The Kings (Liverpool Regiment) Pte. Jacob Walker. 2nd Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers Read their Story. L/Cpl. Robert Nicol Walker. 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers Add a name to this list.

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