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|{{left|Firing line. Lt DURLACHER went sick with slight dysentery. Only Capt Chance & 2 Lt BAINBRIGGE, Capt White QM left.|offset=5px}}
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|{{left|In reserve on the beach. Moved up to dug outs on hillside every alternate night while in reserve. Draft of 100 men from 3 Munsters joined, No officers.|offset=5px}}
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|{{left|In reserve on beach. [[Fatigue duty|Fatigues]] all day all the time in reserve.|offset=5px}}
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|{{left|In reserve one company, in support one coy. [[David Mathers (Lieutenant Colonel)|Major D Mathers]] Inniskilling Fusiliers joined to take
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|{{left|The Bn was separated from 6th Lincolnshire Regt and reorganised under command of Major Mathers in support nullah<ref>Nullah: a dry riverbed, ravine or gully.</ref> 300 yards N of Shafetsbury Avenue – B & C Coys No I Coy; A &D Coys No II Coy – Adjutant Lt. C.K. James <ref>Lt-Col. Charles Kenneth James, DSO & Bar. 6th Border Regiment. Died: 19/05/1918 Age: 26. Buried at Bienvillers Military Cemetery. Son of Dr. C. A. James of The Pollard Elms, Upper Clapton, London; husband of Phyllis D. E. Cursham (formerly James) of The Manor House, Thrumpton, Derby. Temp. Commission date: 3 Oct 1914.</ref>.|offset=5px}}
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|{{left|Btn in Support - working party on GREENLANE. 2 Lt. J.T. Johnstone <ref>Lieut. James Tait Johnstone. Died 28/09/1916 Age: 27. Buried at Lonsdale Cemetery, Authuille.Son of Mr. and Mrs. James Tait Johnstone of 1, Sylvan Place, Edinburgh.</ref> & D.S. Buchanan 9th Btn KOSB attached.|offset=5px}}
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|{{left|Bn relieved 6th Lincoln Regt in firing line – portion of trench taken over E54 & E54(a) (GREN LANE) All night working parties on GREEN LANE – no casualties.|offset=5px}}
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==Notes==
*National Archives Catalogue Reference: WO/95/4299
*{{OGLicence}}
*War diary transcribed by
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[[Category:War Diary (6th Battalion)|wd-03]]
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