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==1916 (Friday)==
*Battalion situated at [[Crucifix Corner]] involved in {{gw|fatigue duty}}.
*Major Girdwood, <small>[[DSO]]</small>, Northumberland Fusiliers takes over command from Major Chamberlayne who is appointed 2nd in
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**''[[An Appreciation of Lt-Col. Colonel Machell]]''
**''[[Casualties - Lewis and Ashton]]''
**''[[Killed - Pte. Osbourne Morgan Lewis]]''
▲*Major Girdwood, DSO, Northumberland Fusiliers takes over command from Major Chamberlayne who is appointed 2nd in command of Battalion.<ref name="wdjuly16" />
**''[[Wounded - Pte. Robert McKegg]]''<ref group="lower-alpha">[[Private]] [[Robert John Reed McKegg (16298)|Robert McKegg]] was actually [[killed in action]] on [[1 July]] 1916. The newspaper article stated that "the wound was not serious," that he received "a nice {{gw|blighty}} one" and, what all parents wanted to hear of their sons fighting abroad, that "he would soon be home." The article then mentioned that a further letter was written by the Chaplain of the Regiment to Robert McKegg's parents stating he had in fact been killed in action.</ref>
*Deaths:
**[[Reuben Hetherington (16301 L/Cpl.)]]
**[[Joseph William Leck (15354 Pte.)]]
**[[John Alexander Little (19708 Pte.)]]
**[[Benjamin Martin (15485)]]
==1917 (Saturday)==
*Battalion remains in rest at Coxyde.
*[[Arthur Shinn (28632)]] [[dies of wounds]].
==1918 (Sunday)==
*Battalion training continues with 1st Battalion 130th Infantry Regiment (USA) at Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher.<ref
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