May 1st \u2013 Maisnil Bouche.<\/strong> May 2nd \u2013 Maisnil Bouche\/Bouvigny.<\/strong> May 3rd to 6th \u2013 Bouvigny Huts.<\/strong> May 7th – Villers.<\/strong> May 8th \u2013 QB Centre Sector.<\/strong> May 9th \u2013 QB Centre Sector.<\/strong> May 10th \u2013 QB Centre Sector.<\/strong> May 11th \u2013 QB Centre Section.<\/strong> May 12th \u2013 QB Centre Section.<\/strong> May 13th \u2013 QB Centre Section.<\/strong> May 15th to 19th \u2013 Maisinal Bouche.<\/strong> May 20th \u2013 Cabaret Rouge.<\/strong> May 21st \u2013 Cabaret Rouge.<\/strong> May 22nd \u2013 Cabaret Rouge.<\/strong> May 23rd \u2013 Cabaret Rouge.<\/strong> May 24th.<\/strong> May 25th.<\/strong> May 26th \u2013 Marest.<\/strong> May 27th to May 31st \u2013 Marest.<\/strong> May 1st \u2013 Maisnil Bouche.In Reserve. May 2nd \u2013 Maisnil Bouche\/Bouvigny.Moved to Bouvigny Huts in Support. May 3rd to 6th \u2013 Bouvigny Huts.In Bouvigny Huts in Support. May 7th – Villers.Moved to Villers \u2013 in Support. Went into billets for one night. May 8th \u2013 QB Centre Sector.Relieved the 24th Battalion in the Carency QB […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":506,"menu_order":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-590","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/590","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=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22042,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/590\/revisions\/22042"}],"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=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
In Reserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Moved to Bouvigny Huts in Support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In Bouvigny Huts in Support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Moved to Villers \u2013 in Support. Went into billets for one night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Relieved the 24th Battalion in the Carency QB Centre Sector. Quiet. Three Craters in line. In close touch with Divisional Artillery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Trench Mortar activity rather considerable on right front at 745pm. Mine exploded 80 yards right of New Cut. Heavy barrage fire \u2013 unable to occupy the Crater owing to the fact of being enfiladed from enemy lip of New Cut. Trenches damaged \u2013 work continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Little work possible by day. RE Tunnelling in touch with Battalion at 710pm. Bombing attack reported on New Cut and Mildren Crater. Battalion replied hotly with bombs \u2013 enemy then called on his artillery. We retaliated with Trench Mortars and artillery barrage. Intense and fierce fighting \u2013 quietened about 915pm. Much work in repairing trenches and in consolidating them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Work continued on trenches by day. At night, operations commenced on New Cut Craters as enemy supposed to be mining inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Enemy Trench Mortars very active, especially on right. Mine is exploded on front of Division on our right. Work at night progressing well expect on Sap towards Irish Crater, which was slow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Very quiet day. Proceed to Maisnil Bouche night of 14th\/15th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In billets at Maisnil Bouche in Reserve (Brigade was in Reserve).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Moved to Cabaret Rouge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Heavy enemy bombardment commenced at 3pm. Orders to move up to Bajolle Line was received at 350pm. Enemy attacked at 745pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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At 210am, \u201cA\u201d Coy counterattacked. Two officer and 35 OR missing. Counter attack not successful. Quiet during day. At 930pm, \u201cA, \u201cD\u201d and \u201cB\u201d Coys were relieved (20 men Coy, Lewis Guns and Bombers alone remain in line). Returned to Villers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Attack by 141s Brigade, 142nd Brigade and 2nd Division arranged for 130am postponed. Attack next arranged for 825pm. At 8pm, the Germans had a false alarm and barraged intensely \u2013 this lifted at 820pm but nevertheless only portions of the line attacked with the result that they had to return although penetrating to OG 1.
Lt Col Tredennick proceeded to Brigade to act as Brigade Commander since Brigadier General Thwaites was wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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At 445am, Battalion was ordered up to Support at Cabaret Rouge \u2013 \u201cD\u201d Coy attached to 20th Battalion. \u201cA\u201d and \u201cC\u201d remain at Cabaret Rouge dugouts. At 2am, \u201cA\u201d and \u201cC\u201d move down to Villers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cB\u201d and D\u201d, Lewis guns and Bombers relieved. Move to Camblain Abbe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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141st Infantry Brigade proceeded to Corps Reserve. 18th Battalion billeted in Marest near Pennes. Major Trinder proceeded on leave. Captain Mahon took over command of the regiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In Marest. Corps Reserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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