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War Diary for January 1916 1 Jan 1916 - Bray, Etinehem and Chipilly In billets Bray 2 Jan 1916 - trenches near Fricourt Relieved Norfolks in C.1.Subsector relief complete 7.20 P.m. 2 men killed on mining fatigue in C.2 subsector. Quiet night 3 Jan 1916 One man wounded in 69 trench by sniper at dawn, quiet day. Reconnoitred enemy's wire in front 66 & 65 trenches 4 Jan 1916 Some shelling about 68 & 69 about 3 pm. No damage done. Patrol made further reconnaissance of enemy's wire found inner row on glacis strong. 5 Jan 1916 Our guns cut enemy's wire in 2 places opposite 65 & 66 trenches, enemy shelled 69 trench 68 & 67 streets one man wounded. At dusk our patrol reported enemy's trench where wire had been cut strongly held. Our guns fired about 60 shells at 7.20 pm 20 were 6 inch. Considerable damage was done to enemy's trench, enemy replied during night with about 80 shells in direction of one of our Batteries all were about 600 yds short and did no damage. 6 Jan 1916 More rifle fire than usual from German trenches in front of 65 & 66 one man killed No8426 Pte.Hare he came out with battalion and served the whole time as a duty man in the trenches. Day quiet. Relieved by 1st Norfolks relief complete 7.40 pm, returned to billets in BRAY. 7 Jan 1916 - Bray-sur-Somme In billets in BRAY 8 Jan 1916 In billets in BRAY 9 Jan 1916 In billets in BRAY 10 Jan 1916 - trenches near Fricourt Relieved Norfolks in C.1 subsector relief complete at 7.35 pm 11 Jan 1916 Quiet morning. 69 trench shelled about 2.30 pm no damage done, about 11.30 pm some shells about road near Battalion HeadQuarters no damage. 12 Jan 1916 Rifle fire 62 trench 12.30 & 4 am. Large new looking German aeroplane came over about 10.30 am. Quiet day 13 Jan 1916 Quiet day cold strong north wind 14 Jan 1916 - Bray-sur-Somme Sergt Higgins A Coy killed about 2 am when out wiring in front of 62 trench. His name appeared in papers today awarded D.C.M. for previous bravery, Relieved by Norfolks relief complete 6.45 pm 15-17 Jan 1916 In billets in Bray 18 Jan 1916 - trenches near Fricourt Relieved 1st Norfolks in C.1 subsector relief complete 7.15 pm 19-21 Jan 1916 Quiet day. No incident worthy of note during this tour. 22 Jan 1916 - Bray-sur-Somme Relieved by 1st Norfolks. relief complete 7.45 pm 23 Jan 1916 In billets Bray. 1 man C Coy killed on mining fatigue 24-25 Jan 1916 In billets Bray 26 Jan 1916 - trenches near Fricourt Relieved Norfolks C1 subsector. Relief complete 7.20 pm 27 Jan 1916 Quiet day. A man C.Coy found shot near Citadel he had fallen out when coming up previous evening and shot himself during night. 28 Jan 1916 Trenches heavily shelled fully 2000 shells fell in C1. subsector no damage of any consequence no casualties. 29 Jan 1916 Gas from gas shells reported 5.30 am. It came from direction of SUZANNE was not strong enough to cause any inconvenience. One man A.Coy wounded by shell pm quiet day 30 Jan 1916 - Bray-sur-Somme Zeppelin reported at 2 a.m. one man A Coy killed at dawn by snipers as fog occasionally lifted a bit. Our snipers claim 14 of the enemy who were out several times mending their wire. Relieved by Norfolks relief complete 9.40 pm. 31 Jan 1916 - Sailly-Laurette Billets in BRAY. Marched to SAILLY-LAURETTE arriving about 8 p.m. Poor billets on the whole

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Hare, Stephen,
Higgins, Albert William Edward

1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, 1st Battalion Norfolk Regiment, land weaponry, Germans, military aircraft, deaths, suicide, military airships, weather, Bray-sur-Somme, Etinehem, Chipilly, Fricourt, Citadel [Somme], Suzanne, Sailly-Laurette