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WAR DIARY FOR APRIL 1917 2 Apr 1917 - Estree-Wamin In billets In training. Bde. Efficiency competition won by the Battn. 5 Apr 1917 - Hauteville Marched to HAUTEVILLE. 7 Apr 1917 - Wanquetin Marched to WANQUETIN. 8 Apr 1917 - Warlus Marched to WARLUS. 9 Apr 1917 - Feuchy Marched to ARRAS & drew Lighting Equipment. Advanced to road running N,S thro' FEUCHY CHAPELLE & dug in. 10 Apr 1917 - La Bergere Captured LA FOLIE FERME & LA BERGERE in conjunction with attack of 111th Bde. on MONCHY-LE-PREUX. Lt.Shaw killed. Battn entrenched on line LA BERGERE cross-roads - GUEMAPPE. Lts Iredale, Hedges, Pattison, Davidson, Foreman wounded. 11 Apr 1917 - La Bergere Remained in the above line. Lt Thompson killed. relieved at night by 12th Divn. 12 Apr 1917 - Wanquetin Marched to wet trenches in TILLOY. Several men suffered from exposure. After daylight marched to ARRAS, thence by busses to WANQUETIN. 14 Apr 1917 - Givenchy-le-Noble Marched to GIVENCHY-LE-NOBLE. to billets. 16 Apr 1917 Lts ROSE, LOVE, FOSKETT & NOKES arrived. 17 Apr 1917 Lewis Gun carts finally given up. 19 Apr 1917 - Lattre-Saint-Quentin Marched to LATTRE-ST-QUENTIN. 21 Apr 1917 - St-Nicholas Marched to St NICHOLAS & bivouaced. 23 Apr 1917 - Roeux-Gavrelle Road Assembled in EFFIE TRENCH for attack on GREENLAND HILL position at 4.25 am Battn was ordered to support the 63rd Bde. & finally dug in E of road etween ROEUX & GAVRELLE. 24 Apr 1917 Capts Blake & Williams, Lts Wilkins, Stables, Parsons, Nokes wounded. Lt Colchester killed. 25 Apr 1917 Battn remained in trench it had dug. 26 Apr 1917 Battn remained in trench it had dug. 27 Apr 1917 Battn remained in trench it had dug. 28 Apr 1917 - Berlencourt Battn assembled for attack (at dawn) on GREENLAND HILL. Objective almost gained. Parties dug in where they could. Suffered from enfilade fire from CHEMICAL WORKS where 34th Div were held up. Lt Love & a party missing after relief by 26th Bde. Marched to ARRAS after relief & proceeded by busses to BERLENCOURT. Only 58 men actually came out of the attack. Lts ROSE & FOSKETT killed. Lts Nathan & Smith wounded. Capt Williams again wounded.

1-30 Apr 1917

From: 1917 To: 1917

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Shaw, Giles Havergal,
Iredale,
Hedges,
Pattison,
Davidson,
Foreman,
Thompson, Frederic George,
Rose, Ronald Henry Evan,
Love,
Nokes,
Foskett, Herbert Edward,
Blake,
Williams,
Colchester, Bernard Valentine,
Stables, Leonard Theodore Drury,
Parsons,
Nathan

111th Infantry Brigade, deaths, 6th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, 12th (Eastern) Division, exposure, land weaponry, 63rd Infantry Brigade, town & local roads, 34th Division, 26th Infantry Brigade, Berlencourt-le-Cauroy, Tilloy-les-Mofflaines, Hauteville, Wanquetin, Warlus, Arras, Feuchy, La Folie Ferme [Arras], La Bergere [Arras], Monchy-le-Preux, Guemappe, Givenchy-le-Noble, Lattre-Saint-Quentin, Saint-Nicolas, Effie Trench [Arras], Greenland Hill [Arras], Roeulx, Gavrelle