{"id":528,"date":"2017-12-15T07:19:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T07:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/?page_id=528"},"modified":"2026-02-28T22:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:03:00","slug":"war-diary-2-18th-london-regiment-july-1917","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/first-world-war\/war-diaries\/war-diary-2-18th-london-regiment-july-1917\/","title":{"rendered":"War Diary, 2\/18th London Regiment &#8211; July 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1st\/2nd July \u2013 Moascar.<\/strong><br>Bttn encamped.<br>3 1\/2 hours of training carried out per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3rd July \u2013 Moascar.<\/strong><br>GOC Division inspected Bttn at a practice trench attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4th July \u2013 Moascar.<\/strong><br>Training continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5th July &#8211; Elferdan.<\/strong><br>Bttn moved by road to Elferdan, starting at 1905 hours, arriving at 2250 hours.<br>March casualties \u2013 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>6th July \u2013 Kantara.<\/strong><br>Bttn marched to Kantara, starting at 1800 hrs and arriving at 2345 hrs.<br>March casualties \u2013 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>7th July \u2013 Kantara.<\/strong><br>Bttn en-trained at Kantara, leaving in two trains at 1600 hrs and 1800 hrs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8th July \u2013 Deir-el Belah.<\/strong><br>Bttn detrained at Deir-el-Belah at 0400 hrs and 0600 hrs and bivouacked two miles south west of station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>9th July \u2013 Deir-el-Belah.<\/strong><br>Bttn in bivouac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>10th to 17th July \u2013 Deir-el-Belah.<\/strong><br>Bttn in Bivouac and engaged in training.<br>Additional personnel put into training for 8 new Lewis Guns.<br>Open attack practised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>18th July \u2013 Deir-el-Belah.<\/strong><br>Brigade open attack practised.<br>Visual signalling found to be too slow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>19th to 28th July \u2013 Deir-el-Belah.<\/strong><br>Bttn in Bivouac and continued to engage in training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>29th July \u2013 Deir-el-Belah.<\/strong><br>Bttn marched to point C32 (on map Gaza \u2013 Shellal). All transport marched also.<br>Left camp at 1802 hours and arrived at C22 at 2205 hours.<br>March casualties \u2013 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>30th July \u2013 Near Sheikh Nuran (Point C32).<\/strong><br>Bttn marched with transport to point G14 Central.<br>Relieved 16th Royal Welsh Fusiliers.<br>Two strong posts \u201cS\u201d(G 24 a.4.4) and \u201cT\u201d (G 23 b.2.3.) each held by two platoons, taken over by C Company from B Coy RWF.<br>March casualties \u2013 Nil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>31st July \u2013 Near Sheikh Nuran (G 14 Central).<\/strong><br>Bttn encamped and engaged in Camp improvements.<br>Strength of Bttn: 32 Officers, 876 ORs.<\/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\/2nd July \u2013 Moascar.Bttn encamped.3 1\/2 hours of training carried out per day. 3rd July \u2013 Moascar.GOC Division inspected Bttn at a practice trench attack. 4th July \u2013 Moascar.Training continued. 5th July &#8211; Elferdan.Bttn moved by road to Elferdan, starting at 1905 hours, arriving at 2250 hours.March casualties \u2013 5. 6th July \u2013 Kantara.Bttn marched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":506,"menu_order":46,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-528","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528","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=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22098,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528\/revisions\/22098"}],"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=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}