March 1st to 3rd \u2013 Raimbert.<\/strong> March 4th.<\/strong> March 5th \u2013 Erny St Julien.<\/strong> March 6th \u2013 Erny St Julien.<\/strong> March 7th \u2013 Erny St Julien.<\/strong> March 8th \u2013 Erny St Julien.<\/strong> March 9th \u2013 Erny St Julien\/Sachin.<\/strong> March 10th \u2013 Sachin\/Bruay.<\/strong> March 11th \u2013 Bruay.<\/strong> March 12th \u2013 Bruay.<\/strong> March 13th \u2013 Villers.<\/strong> March 14th \u2013 Carency Section.<\/strong> March 15th \u2013 Carency Section.<\/strong> March 16th \u2013 Carency Section.<\/strong> March 17th\/18th \u2013 Carrency\/Villers.<\/strong> March 19th \u2013 Carency\/Villers.<\/strong> March 20th \u2013 Verdrel.<\/strong> March 21st \u2013 Verdrel.<\/strong> March 22nd \u2013 Verdrel.<\/strong> March 23rd \u2013 Verdred.<\/strong> March 24th \u2013 Verdrel.<\/strong> March 25th \u2013 Verdrel.<\/strong> March 26th \u2013 Bouvigny.<\/strong> March 27th \u2013 Bouvigny.<\/strong> March 28th \u2013 Lorette Sector.<\/strong> March 29th \u2013 Lorette Sector.<\/strong> March 30th \u2013 Lorette Sector.<\/strong> March 31st \u2013 Lorette Sector.<\/strong> March 1st to 3rd \u2013 Raimbert.Range Practice. March 4th.Proceed by route march to Erny St Julien (in First Army Area). Left Raimbert at 850am and arrived 330pm in heavy snow storm. Marched via Estree Blanche-Enquingatte and went into billets in Erny St Julien. Barns good. March 5th \u2013 Erny St Julien.First day field training. Artillery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":506,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-594","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/594","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=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22040,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/594\/revisions\/22040"}],"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=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Range Practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Proceed by route march to Erny St Julien (in First Army Area). Left Raimbert at 850am and arrived 330pm in heavy snow storm. Marched via Estree Blanche-Enquingatte and went into billets in Erny St Julien. Barns good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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First day field training. Artillery formation practised. Retuned to billets about 430pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Owing to severe weather, field training postponed. Lectures in billets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Defence scheme carried out. Idea \u2013 defence of Erny St Julien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Field exercise \u2013 the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Moved to Sachin. Road very slippery – great difficulty with Transport. Arrived and went into billets at Sachin at 330pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Marched from Sachin to Bruay with 19th Battalion. Difficulty in finding billets owing to Staff Captains having missed billeting representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In Bruay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Church Parade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Moved to Villers au Bois and Carency and took over from 2nd North Hampshires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Went into left sub-Section, Carency Section and relieved 1st Sherwood Forresters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Signal dugout blown in by Aerial Torpedo \u2013 Sgt Jones DCM Signal Sergeant and Signal Rigger killed. 3 others wounded, all of Signal Section. L\/Cpl Norman 17th Battalion arrived to reconnoitre line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Relieved by 17th Battalion. Two coys proceeded to Carency and 2 coys to Villers au Bois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Supplied working parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Bttn HQ was moved to Town Mayor\u2019s house in Villers au Bois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Moved to Verdrel. Billets for men good, difficulty for officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Working party at Gouy. Five officers, 250 men for 138 AT Coy RE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Same working party furnished as on the 21st.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Bathing at Fresnicourt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Inspection of Coys by CO impossible to be carried out owing to snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Brigade Ceremonial \u2013 Corp Commander Lt-General H Wilson inspected the Brigade \u2013 snow very thick on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Battalion moved to Bouvigny huts \u2013 took over from 20th Battalion. Relief completed by 11am \u2013 pelting rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Relieved by 19th Battalion in Bouvigny huts. Relief completed by 630pm. Still raining. Took over the Lorette trenches from 24th Battalion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Brigadier General and Brigade Major came to Bttn HQ at 7pm. Too dark for them to go round line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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CO went to Servins in order to proceed to England for his investiture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Brigadier General and Brigade Major went round line about 530pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Major General Barter and Lt Col Newton Taylor came to Bttn HQ at 10am and went up to \u201cA\u201d Coy . Unable to proceed further owing to open ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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