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==1916 (Friday)==
*Relieves the 17th Highland Light Infantry in the F1 sector near Aveluy.<ref group="note">The 8th Norfolk Regiment is situated on the right, the 2nd King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry are on the left.</ref> During this period one man is wounded.
*For period 7–[[14 January]]:
:{{quote-left}}It is delightful how easily all the [[working party|working parties]] can be arranged, and how satisfactorily an immense amount of work is done with a minimum amount of fatigue to the men, by careful and systematic arrangement beforehand. We do more than twice what the others do, and our men do it twice as easily. It is all very small, but it is good to see the result, both in the work and in the men themselves....I have three patrols every night. They go cautiously at first, and I get them to go a bit wider every night, so as gradually to get confidence.
:{{quote-left}}One of our patrols bumped into a German one a few night ago. Germans retired and we got our machine-gun on to them; one German got left, and was brought in in triumph, everyone much pleased. Last night patrol, under Matthews, the police sergeant, got right inside the German wire and located a big working party in the open. Got back and put a M.G. and a lot rifles on to them—groans, lights flying about, silence for half an hour, and then retaliation with [[whizz-bang|whizz-bangs]] and rifle grenades—no effect. Quite good. It has given them a start, so much turns on the way the first things go. We have located a spot where I believe they are making a [[trench mortar]] battery, so we have arranged for our [[artillery]] to flatten this place quite out to-morrow. The new R.A. is first class. – [[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. P.W. Machell]] <ref>[[Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - In France]]</ref>
==1917 (Sunday)==
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