1st Battalion War Diary, August 1915: Difference between revisions

| Relieved R Innis Fus on ectreme left of firing line taking up from the sea over FUSILIER BLUFF to the barricade in J13. A & B Coys in firing line, C Coy in support & D in reserve (in TROLLY RAVINE). Headquarters were established in BORDER RAVINE. Eight saps in progress in right section of firing line & work in there was continued day & night. The parapet throughout the whole line had to be practically remade as it was much too high & not bullet proof at the top nor were there any loopholes for snipers. No special activity on the part of the enemy during the day, beyond [[sniping]] which was extremely accurate from well concealed loopholes & owning to the unsafe state of our parapet & lack of loopholes the enemy's superiority was for the time complete. During the night the enemy kept up an almost continuous fire but made no attempt to attack.

| C & D Coys relieved A & B in the firing line, A going into support & B in reserve. By this time something like an equality in [[sniping]] had been established partly by constructing proper loopholes & also by the use of periscope rifles & the enemy's [[sniping]] was consequently kept within reasonable limits.

| Usual [[sniping]] continued day & night. Patrols were sent out nightly along the beach & discovered that the enemy were in the habit of sending a party estimated at 60 strong down to their wire entanglements on the beach each night. Attempts were made to abush patrols sent out from this party but without success. LT J.T.B. DINWIDDIE promoted temporary Captain & LTs W.F.H. CHAMBERS & G.W. O'BRIEN temporary Lieutenants.

| At 6am a message was recieved from LT CLAGUE to the effect that he was still holding on, on the extreme left of the position & had received no orders to retire & had with him the remnant of him own company about 33 strong & another 50 or so of various corps. Orders were at once sent to him to withdraw his party which he succeeded in doing successfully in spite of heavy [[sniping]]. During this action many gallant deeds were performed but owing to the heavy mortality among officers & the intermingling of units only very few of them were brough to light. The following were the casualties suffered by the Battn in the engagement, officers wounded: - CAPTS G.C. MAY, J.A TENNANT, J.T.B. DINWIDDIE, LTs J.H. HODGSON, F.A. RUPP, J.J. ADAIR, J.E.R. LAKE, W.F.H. CHAMBERS, HAMILTON, 2nd LTs P. NEW, N.C. AMPT, F.G. GOODALL, A.P.J. ARMSTRONG, E.C. STEER. Rank & file killed 38, wounded 274, missing 64.