TH INFANTRY BRIGADE HISTORY/CENTER>. November 1. 91. 6. Remember to apply everything that you have learned at all. Troops entrained at Amesbury Station in three trains. A Company Lieutenant: Herman Augustine ARNOLD. B Company Lieutenant: 3 Harry WOODHAMS. C Company Lieutenant. A MESSAGE To The Men of the Third Australian Division. You are about to embark for France in order to take your place by the side of our. The Biltmore Village of today is as charming an area of town as anyone is likely to find. Its lovely, historically significant, old homes-turned-shops, with their. Miss Elizabeth O’Farrell’s Story of the Surrender. On Thursday afternoon (of Easter 1916) it became evident that the G.P.O. Anzacs in France, 1916. In the early months of the First World War, great European armies manoeuvred and clashed on a colossal scale, while in Australia a small. A website providing the names of soldiers from Nelson, Glamorgan who died in the First World War and men from Nelson whose names do not appear on the village memorial. A brief history of the Easter Rising in Dublin, 1916, with brief biographies of the main participants. James Michael JULEFF. Train 9: 1. 5am- Compliment- Officers 1. Major: Archibald. Clifford BLACKLOW. A Company Lieutenant: Richard Henry DOYLE. B Company. Lieutenant: 1. William James GORDON. Total 3. 2 Officers, others 9. Southampton 6: 0. Officer. 7. 5 others detailed as sentries and boat guard. Sergeant, 1 Corporal and 2. Firing Party. 5 Sanitary Police and. Sanitary Party. Marched via town to No: 1 Rest Camp arrived 1. Remained at Rest Camp. Le Harve, till 6: 3. November 1. 91. 6. Entrainied. and left Le Harve at 1. Proceeded via Montcrolier Buchy, Abbeville 6: 1. Boulogne Calais and. Bailleul. Arrived at Bailleul at 4: 2. November 1. 91. 6. Arrived at billets 1. Quartered in 1. 2 billets. Headquarters. at Hameur Farm. Remainder of Battalion arrived at Merris 4: 0. Hostile aircraft. All Officers instructed in Box Respirator by Divisional Gas Officer. Captain. John Martin HAWKEY. Whole Battalion reported in billets at Armentieres at 5: 3. Enemy started light shelling at 1. At 2: 0. 0pm locality 1. Pimple Salient. They. Our casulties 1. 1 killed, 3. It is quite possible the. Minnies. Lieutenant: Clarence William BODDY 3. Bn when on patrol in NO MAN'S LAND, crawled close. Machine Gun emplacement in the enemy wire when the Gun therein suddenly Opened fire. Sergeant: 7. 31 Gordon Mott COX. Lieutenant BODDY who was. Sergeant both dashed away and sheltered in a crater. The charge exploded and the. Corps, Divisional, and Bde Commanders desire to congratulate Lieutenant BODDY. Battalion War Diary). March 1. 91. 7. 3. Battalion relieved by 3. Battalion- Working Parties and Training started. All arrangements made. Advance Parties sent into trenches. Orders cancelled late at night. Major: John Alexander MILNE. Took over the whole of the HOUPLINE Sector from locality 8 to RIVER LYS. Enemy raid possibly avoided. Battalion relieved 3. Battalion. When 2. Rest given the next day. Took over Trenches on 2. Heavy Artillery fire over whole Sector. Enemy workingat night in front line C. Enemy heavily shelling our front line. Heavy and medium Trench Mortars carried out a shoot with good effect. IRISH AVENUE heavily. Patrols state enemy front line held very lightly. Enemy shelling HOUPLINES with 4. Light Trench Mortars got on to a working Party of. Heavy Trench Mortar fired with good effect damaging enemy support line. Enemy considerably shelled our front line. Considerable shelling all over Sector. Battalion relieved 3. Battalion on morning of 2nd April. Battalion moved to Billets in ARMENTIERES. Battalion supplied Working Parties for HOUPLINES Sector. Trench Mortors fired in retaliation for pinapples from locality 1. J Gap, No Mans Land as usual. Aircraft Patrol of 8 Planes passed over enemy lines. Enemy recconaissance, a plane which flew low over our lines, it would appear likely that enemy anticipate some action. Albert was the only man from the 3. Killed in Actionduring April 1. They moved to Senninghem. Then once again they were on the march, via Renescure and Pradelle. Armentieres, Where, on the 2. On the 2. 1st May the men of the 3. Le Touquet. to Ploegsteert Wood for the usual working parties, trench maintenance being high on the agenda for the comming offensive. Marched from ST OMER to WIZERNES. Marched to JOURNY (2nd Army Training Area). April 1. 91. 7. Battalion engaged in Training. Battalion marched to Gd. Battalion marched to ERQUINGHAM. Battalion took over Le Touquet Trenches from 1. CHESHIRE REGIMENT. Relief being completed by midnight. At this. point enemy dropped a curtain of shrapnel and H. E. Artillery responded at once. Enemy evidently attempted to. Barrage slackened at 6: 3. Enemy used light and heavy Minnewerfere togeth with all sizes of H. E. Our casualties, 5 killed, 1. Officer Lieutenant: Clarence William BODDY slightly wounded. Private: 2. 38. 3 John SLATER. Killed in Action. April 1. 91. 7. We were observing down the gap. We then saw three crouching figures with round caps making for our support line. I ordered the men to get there rifles and bombs ready and told them to fire. Private: 5. 04. 3 Albert Francis LANE of his own accord jumped out of the bay and got to a point 1. The Lewis Guns then commenced to fire at the place where the men had been seen. We then saw 2. 5 Germans making back to their own line. The Lewis Guns then fired three seperate bursts at them. Germans fall, in NO MAN'S LAND 7. The Lewis Guns continued firing and were sweeping perfectly. We then saw a German limping 3. Lewis Gun was turned on him and he fell. We brought him in although he was screeming with pain. The stretcher bearers were sent for and the German was. Company Headquarters, thense to the Aid Post. Our party threw 2. The Lewis Gunners fired 1. The Germans made their entrance by. NO MAN'S LAND. From the point where Private: 5. Albert Francis LANE threw bombs the gap is heavily wired and we could make no. The Germans also left in a diagonal direction so it was impossible to get in NO MAN'S LAND and cut them off. Enemy silently raided our trenches and were driven off with Lewis Gun fire and bombs leaving 1 prisoner in our hands. Trench maintanence. Battalion Unit Diary. May 1. 91. 7. The enemy this time employed. British method of a very short, though heavy, preliminary bombardment. The preliminary registration however had been. Australian counter- barrage came down within 1. S. O. S signal fired by. Lieutenant: 4. 55. Frederick Murchison WAUGH. A party of Bavarians. One climbed the parapet and said . Lewis Guns, in particular that of Private: 1. Joseph Edward KIRK. Working alone the line, they bombed a Lewis Gun Team, wounding three. Bean) Charles Edwin Woodrow BEAN. June 1. 91. 7. The 2. New Zealand, 3rd Australian Division with the 4th Australian Division in. The 4th Division were battle hardened troops who had fought many major battles. The 3rd. Australian Division were having problems getting to the . The day before the 9th. Infantry Brigades were bombarded by German Gas- Shells around Hill 6. Plugstreet. Wood. Many of the Aussies were not wearing gas masks, but dispite this they pressed on even. The mines went up and the attack commenced behind. The II Anzac Corps were attacking on the right with their objective being. Messines, the Dover and St Yves areas as far. Plugstreet Wood. The 9th Infantry. Brigade under Brigadier General: Alexander JOBSON and the 1. Infantry Brigade under Brigadier General. W R NICHOLL had just made the jumping off point but some of the men did not stop, going straight. The mines at Trench 1. Trench 1. 2 at. Factory Farm were laid to aid this task. The explosions erupted a few seconds before zero hour. German defence line as. Infantry Brigades went over the top. The mine crates forced the 9th and 1. Brigades to veer to the left and right which caused some confusion with the main assault. It is. testimony to the quality of training that every man knew the ground, tasks and objectives so well. He then noticed a comrade in difficulties. German. He then attacked single handed a German Machine. Gun Team, killing all three of them and capturing the gun. He later rescued two of his comraded who. German Shell Fire, and in spite of heavy shelling and machine gun fire he. John was awarded the. Victoria Cross. The two supporting. The men. were constantly re- supplied and the ridge was taken. There were many German prisoners taken. The 3rd Division was well ahead with the 9th Infantry Brigade pushing on. Grey Farm, and on the right the 1. Infantry Brigade were veering left towards Septieme. Barn north of Douve. The 3rd Australian Division. Division attacking. The 9th Infantry Brigade (3. Bn). were near Thatched Cottage facing Warneton. The river Lys was to their right and the Plugstreet. Wood was now behind them. A barrarge to stop and counter attack. By 9: 0. 0pm this part of the. Oosttaverne Line was abandonded. At 1. 0: 4. 5pm General Godley ordered the 3rd and 4th Divisions to. This they did by the early hours of the 8th of June. AIF8 Officers. 38. Other ranks. 34th Battalion. AIF1. 0 Officers. Other ranks. 35th Battalion. AIF5 Officers. 43. Other ranks 3. 6th Battalion. AIF9 Officers. 42. Other ranks 9th Machine Gun Company. AIF2 Officer. 17 Other ranks 9th Light Trench Mortor Battery. Officer. 2 Other ranks. FIELD DRESSING STATION, MESSINES 7th June 1. After 2 short days of rest they were again marched. Douleu, where they stayed for the next ten days. By then Command must have considered. Cheshire. Battalion on June 2. Never a Backward Step; Edwards 1. July 1. 91. 7. Enemy was fairly quiet except for Counter Battery work which was very constant. During this time men. On 1/7/1. 7. 2 Lieut: Mortimer Eustace LYNE was wounded by a shell entering his dugout. Captain: Frank Harold. JARRETT was wounded on the 5/7/1. He died of wounds received at 2pm in the Main. Dressing Station on the same date. Supplied working parties. Supports. We were at times subjected to fairly severe enemy shell fire while in Close Supports Casulties from 1. Lieutenant: Wynter Wallace WARDEN wounded. Messines Ridge.(3. Battalion War Diary). July 1. 91. 7. Enemy firing gas shells intermittently all night.(3. Battalion War Diary). July 1. 91. 7. Casulties during tour in front line 4. Lieut; Thomas Laurence GRAY was wounded 2. On night of 2. 8/0. Bn front line (Douve River to. Steicnvast Farm) and finally attempted to raid our Right Company . They were successfully. Our counter barrage, both Machine- Gun and Artillery being excellent. Our trenches were badly damaged but. Casulties during 2. This month was the most strenuous in the history of the Battalion (not including the big offensive. June) as the new ground in front of Messines was in a very wet and muddy state, and hastily constructed trenches. Battalion leaved DOUVE RIVER CAMP. NEUVE EGLISE and STEENWERET to YIEUX BERQUIN AREA. Battalion arrives at billets at 1. Battalion Headquarters at Le YERRIER.(3. Battalion War Diary).
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