| 1st Border Regiment War Diary Transcriptions (1915-1918) The National Archives WO/95/4311 & WO/95/2305
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| 1916 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1917 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
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| Place | Date | Hour | Summary of Events and Information |
| FIEFFS | 1.4.17 | Btn marched to BOISBERGUE.
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| BOISBERGUE | 2.4.17 | Marched to LUCHEUX.
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| LUCHEUX | 3.4.17 | Training. Wood fighting. Attack on strong Point. Open warfare.
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| " | 4.4.17 | Training as above. All kits cut down to 35lbs & dumped here.
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| " | 5.4.17 | Marched to LIENCOURT.
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| LIENCOURT | 6.4.17 | Training in morning
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LIENCOURT |
7.4.17 | * | Training in morning and afterwards marched to GRAND RULLECOURT. LIEUT P. NEW, 2LTS A. CAMPBELL, A.J.F. DANIELS, T.L.P GAMON & T.N. MORRIS to temp (???) Depôt, St POL.
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| GRAND RULLECOURT | 8.4.17 | Marched to BAVINCOURT.
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| BAVINCOURT | 9.4.17 | Hail snow rain and wind. Men allowed to stay in huts. Offensive started at ARRAS.
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| " | 10.4.17 | As above. Good news, 10,000 prisoners and about 100 guns. 2Lt J. WHIGHAM rejoined from TMB. Lt COL MORRIS, D.S.O. sick to F.A!
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| " | 11.4.17 | About the same weather. Nothing done except issued with battle stores. MAJOR A.J. ELLIS, D.S.O. joined from ENGLAND.
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| " | 12.4.17 | 9.30am | Marched to DAINVILLE where we had dinner on the roadside. Then on to ARRAS, two hours rest then on to MAISON ROUGE near FEUCHY CHAPAL (leaving 10 percent officers and ORs behind) where we relieved 7th NORFOLKS, 9th Bde. Captured country and no accommodation except shell holes. Very muddy & cold. 2 LIEUT. A.H. CRAINE to F.A.
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| * | Casualties week ending 7thinst.
Sick to HOSP. 7 66 ORs joined from BASE From HOSP. 3 | ||
| MAISON ROUGE | 13.4.17 | Relieved 7th KSLI in BROWN LINE (old BOSCHE TRENCHES). Fairly comfortable. Near ORANGE HILL, about 2 miles E. of MONCHY and between latter place and GUEMAPPE. Saw where cavalry had taken it in the neck.
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| "Brown Line" | 14.4.17 | ||
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| 6 pm | All quiet again. Stood down. Were not wanted.
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8 - 4am | Digging [?] trench.
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| " | 15.4.17 | 8 pm | Whole Btn digging [?] trench N side of ARRAS-CAMBRAI RD from BROWN LINE to skirting LA FOSSÉ and LA BERGERE FARMS.
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| " | 16.4.17 | As above.
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14.4.17 | * Casualties week ending 14thinst.
KILLED – NIL. WOUNDED – NIL. MISSING – NIL. SICK to F.A. – 16 40 O.R.s to Coys Depôt FROM F.A. – 1 | |
| " | 17.4.17 | To firing line, relieved 2nd S.W.Bs.
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| " | 18.4.17 | Improving firing line. One platoon of "B" Coy under 2Lt G.C.A. COX attempted to take a BOCHE strong point about 250 yds from our line. Unsuccessful owing to the fact that it was not known exactly the position an on arrival was found to be held strongly with MGs. 2 Lieut. COX wounded & 5 ORS.
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| FIRING LINE | 19.4.17 | Relieved by 2 HANTS, 88nd Bde on left, 6/7th R. SCOTS FUS. 45th BDE in centre & 6th CAMERON H. 44th BDE. on right. To ARRAS [?] 2 LIEUT COWARD & LIEUT MILLS wounded in ARRAS by shell (4am 20th).
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References / notes
- National Archives Catalogue Reference: WO/95/2305
- The transcription above is available under the National Archives Open Government Licence for public sector information.
- Transcribed by Hugh Fulton