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War Diary for March 1916 1 Mar 1916 Parades & routine as usual. Training for new form of trench attack. 2 Mar 1916 Parades & routine as usual 3 Mar 1916 Parades & routine as usual 4 Mar 1916 Tents struck & repitched. G.O.C. inspected the Batt at work 5 Mar 1916 Church Parade at 0900 6 Mar 1916 Parades etc. as usual 7 Mar 1916 Parades etc. as usual 8 Mar 1916 Parades etc. as usual 9 Mar 1916 Inspection at work by G.O.C. New trench attack carried out by the battalion 10 Mar 1916 Parades etc as usual 11 Mar 1916 parades etc as usual. Instruction for officers with R.F.A. 54th Div. 12 Mar 1916 Church Parade 0900 13 Mar 1916 Usual parades & routine 14 Mar 1916 Usual parades & routine. Battalion on Bayonet Fighting course 15 Mar 1916 Usual parades etc. Officers again instructed under RFA 16 Mar 1916 2 Coys innoculated. usual parades for other 2 Coys. 17 Mar 1916 Parades as usual 18 Mar 1916 Tents struck & repitched. Parades as usual. A Coy on Range. 19 Mar 1916 Church Parades 0900 20 Mar 1916 Brigade Route March CAIRO Road 21 Mar 1916 Usual parades. Rem. 2 Coys innoculated 22 Mar 1916 Officers under Brigadier in Map Reading. Parades as usual 23 Mar 1916 Parades as usual. 2 Coys light duty 24 Mar 1916 Parades as usual. Batt on Bayonet Fighting Course 25 Mar 1916 Parades as usual 26 Mar 1916 Church Parade at 0900 under Rev TAYLOR 27 Mar 1916 Parades as usual. 2 Coys innoculated 28 Mar 1916 Parades as usual 29 Mar 1916 Parades as usual 30 Mar 1916 Parades as usual. Orders received to move to SHALUFA. 31 Mar 1916 Parades as usual

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1st/5th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, church services, 162nd Infantry Brigade, 54th (East Anglian) Division, Royal Field Artillery, inoculation, town & local roads, maps, clergy names index, Shalufa