June 1st to 3rd \u2013 Spoil Bank.<\/strong> June 3rd\/4th \u2013 Spoil Bank.<\/strong> June 4th \u2013 Dominion Lines.<\/strong> June 5th \u2013 Dominion Lines.<\/strong> June 6th \u2013 Dickebusch.<\/strong> June 7th \u2013 Ecluse Trench.<\/strong> June 8th \u2013 Old French Trench.<\/strong> June 9th \u2013 Old French Trench.<\/strong> June 10th to 12th \u2013 Blue Line.<\/strong> June 13th \u2013 Blue Line.<\/strong> June 13th\/14th \u2013 Bluff Tunnels.<\/strong> June 14th \u2013 Bluff Tunnels.<\/strong> June 15th \u2013 Hesken.<\/strong> June 16th \u2013 Caestre.<\/strong> June 17th – Racquinghem.<\/strong> June 18th to 22nd \u2013 Racquinghem.<\/strong> June 23rd \u2013 St Martin-au-Laert.<\/strong> June 24th to 26th \u2013 St Martin-au-Laert.<\/strong> June 27th to 29th \u2013 Sercus.<\/strong> June 30th \u2013 Godewaers-Velde.<\/strong> June 1st to 3rd \u2013 Spoil Bank.In Spoil Bank Sub-Sector. Our Artillery very active. June 3rd\/4th \u2013 Spoil Bank.Battalion carried out a small raid on night 3\/4th. Party consisted of 1 Officer (2\/Lt. T I Jones), 1 Sergeant and 19 Other Ranks. No enemy seen. Our casualties 1 Other Rank Wounded. June 4th \u2013 Dominion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":506,"menu_order":43,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-539","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/539","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=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22057,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/539\/revisions\/22057"}],"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=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
In Spoil Bank Sub-Sector. Our Artillery very active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Battalion carried out a small raid on night 3\/4th. Party consisted of 1 Officer (2\/Lt. T I Jones), 1 Sergeant and 19 Other Ranks. No enemy seen. Our casualties 1 Other Rank Wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Relieved by 8th Bttn London Regt., and moved to Dominion Lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Moved to Dickebusch Village in the evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Moved into reserve position in Ecluse Trench in the evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Zero hour 310am when 2nd Army offensive started. Battalion stood in Ecluse Trench. No casualties. At 7am the Battalion moved forward in Artillery formation to Old French Trench. Very slight casualties. Remained in Old French Trench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Little shelling few casualties. Warned to move to front line at 10pm. Move subsequently cancelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Night 9\/10th, relieved 23rd & 24th in the Blue Line and Triangular Spoil Bank North of Canal. Battalion Headquarters established in CG2. A small raiding party sent out by C. Company consisting 2\/Lt. C. F. Burhay and 30 Other Ranks. Enemy met and smart fight ensued in which many of the enemy were killed. Many dugouts were bombed. Our casualties were very slight consisting of 3 Other Ranks wounded and 1 Other Rank missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In the line. Battalion Headquarters moved to OG1. Intermittent shelling all day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In the Line. Enemy kept up continuous bombardment all day & night 13\/14th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Battalion Headquarters and two advanced Companies relieved by Company of 8th Buffs and moved to Bluff Tunnels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Remaining two Companies moved to Bluff Tunnels. Attack by 24th Division at 730pm. Entirely successful. Battalion stood to in Tunnels but was not required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Battalion moved to Camp as Hesken – left Bluff Tunnels at 4am. Motor Lorries took Battalion from Kruistraat Hoek to CAMP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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At Hesken. Battalion moved by march route to billets at Caestre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Battalion moved by march route to billets at Racquinghem, arrived 12.30am 18th inst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In billets in Racquinghem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Left Racquinghem by march route and arrived St. Martin-au-Laert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In St. Martin-au-Laert near St. Omer. Battalion carried out Musketry Course Tilques.
On 26th, Battalion carried out Field Firing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Left St. Martin-au-Laert by march route for Sercus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Left Sercus by march route for neighbourhood of Godewaersvelde and billeted near Mont des Cats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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