{"id":508,"date":"2017-12-15T06:58:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T06:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/?page_id=508"},"modified":"2026-02-28T21:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:41:53","slug":"war-diary-1-18th-london-regiment-december-1917","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/first-world-war\/war-diaries\/war-diary-1-18th-london-regiment-december-1917\/","title":{"rendered":"War Diary, 1\/18th London Regiment &#8211; December 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1st December &#8211; Bourlon Wood.<\/strong><br>In the line &#8211; Intense Shelling &#8211; Casualties heavy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2nd December \u2013 Bourlon Wood.<\/strong><br>Relieved by 24th Bn London Regt and moved into Hindenburg Support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3rd\/4th December \u2013 Hindenburg Support.<\/strong><br>Situation Normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5th December \u2013 Royaulcourt.<\/strong><br>Relieved by 21st Bn London Regt and moved into Divisional Reserve at Royaulcourt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>6th December \u2013 Royaulcourt.<\/strong><br>In Divisional Reserve &#8211; village shelled by H.V. Gun &#8211; Enemy aircraft active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>7th December \u2013 Royaulcourt.<\/strong><br>Major C Beresford (attd from 17th Bn) assumed Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8th\/9th December \u2013 Royaulcourt.<\/strong><br>In Divisional Reserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>10th December \u2013 Royaulcourt<\/strong>.<br>Enemy aircraft activity &#8211; The Battalion as one Company came under order of 1\/17 London Regt. and moved to Havrincourt Wood. Bn HQ remaining at Transport Lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>11th to 14th December \u2013 Hindenburg Support.<\/strong><br>Company moved into Line &#8211; situation Normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>15th December \u2013 Bertincourt.<\/strong><br>Relieved by 8th Bn London Regt and moved into Divisional Reserve &#8211; outside Bertincourt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>16th December \u2013 Bouzincourt Area.<\/strong><br>Moved by March Route and train to Heavy Battery Camp in Bouzincourt Area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>17th December \u2013 Bouzincourt Area.<\/strong><br>In Army Reserve &#8211; cleaning up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>18th December \u2013 Bouzincourt.<\/strong><br>Moved into billets in Bouzincourt village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>19th\/20th December \u2013 Bouzincourt.<\/strong><br>In Army Reserve &#8211; training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>21st December \u2013 Bouzincourt.<\/strong><br>Major WH Murphy assumed Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>22nd December \u2013 Bouzincourt.<\/strong><br>In Army Reserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>23rd December \u2013 Bouzincourt.<\/strong><br>In Army Reserve, Church Parades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>24th December \u2013 Bouzincourt.<\/strong><br>In Army Reserve.<br>Training and practicing tactical scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>25th December \u2013 Bouzincourt.<\/strong><br>Christmas Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>26th\/27th December \u2013 Bouzincourt.<\/strong><br>In Army Reserve \u2013 Training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>28th December \u2013 Bouzincourt.<\/strong><br>Battalion at 3 hours\u2019 notice to move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>29th December \u2013 Bouzincourt.<\/strong><br>Practising tactical scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>30th December \u2013 Bouzincourt.<\/strong><br>Church Parade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>31st December \u2013 Bouziincourt.<\/strong><br>Training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1st December &#8211; Bourlon Wood.In the line &#8211; Intense Shelling &#8211; Casualties heavy. 2nd December \u2013 Bourlon Wood.Relieved by 24th Bn London Regt and moved into Hindenburg Support. 3rd\/4th December \u2013 Hindenburg Support.Situation Normal. 5th December \u2013 Royaulcourt.Relieved by 21st Bn London Regt and moved into Divisional Reserve at Royaulcourt. 6th December \u2013 Royaulcourt.In Divisional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":506,"menu_order":55,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-508","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22063,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/508\/revisions\/22063"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}