Heavy shelling by our guns in morning. Enemy shelled our trenches & sniped the whole day. 10 casualties.

Heavy shelling all day.”A” Coys Farm demolished & burnt. Wet night and trenches in bad state.

Heavy machine gun & rifle fire at 2 a.m. lasting for one hour. 2 casualties. Little sniping in morning.

A & B trenches shelled with heavies about noon. Capt. Bently Mortally wounded, & Capt. Bannerman wounded and 5 men. Battalion relieved R[oyal] Fusiliers at night & took up very long line. Difficult position with points enfiladed.

Heavy firing going on all round. No incident occurred with Battalion.

Battles raging all round. Heavy shelling. 11^th & 12^th Brigade got forward N.W. OF RIVER LYS. 17^th Brigade retired a little at night to straighten their line & this left our left flank very much in the air.

Germans shelled our trenches heavily, and also HOUPLINES with heavies, both in morning & afternoon. H.Qrs took to trenches. 1 man killed 5 wounded.

Major Pigott took over command of Battalion. Regiment remained in present trenches & kept up heavy fire against Enemy while 2^nd Seaforth Highldrs attacked FRELINGHIEN with Irish Fusiliers in Support and supported by one guns. Continue reading →

Heavy Gun & Rifle fire during the night. Battalion moved off at 4 a.m. to AVILE d’ALIENIENS in support of R.Dublin Fusiliers. Regiment shelled at 8 A.M. & VI DVN [VI Division] became engaged in the South. Continue reading →

At 6.15 a.m. Battalion ordered to march via Bridge over River LYS through ERQUINHEM and take ARMENTIERES which was occupied by Germans. Continue reading →