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Line 1: {{Lon-rec-navbar}}__NOTOC__ ==Final notes and instructions from Commanding Officer to O.C. Companies==     Objective first day is 2nd line.<br>     [[Platoon]] Commanders select strong point.<br>     Dig in whenever halt. None go back as long as can stick out. ~~Shells~~[[Shell]]s in wood and on emerging, also our front line. All not hit ''must'' push on. ''Must'' do our job. If all goes well, I stay proper place; if goes badly, I come up and see it through.<ref ~~name~~group="~~ftn1~~lower-alpha">Things did go badly and he did "come up and see it through" when he made his way to the British front line after seeing his men cut down by [[machine-gun]] fire. [[Percy Wilfrid Machell\|Col. Machell]] was true to his word, ~~and~~but was killed upon climbing the parapet.</ref> {\| class="wikitable" style="width:36%" \| style="~~Background:#efefef;~~ padding-left:10px;" \| D Coy. \| style="padding-left:10px;" \| + 20’ \|- \| style="~~Background:#efefef;~~ padding-left:10px;" \| B Coy. \| style="padding-left:10px;" \| + 25’ \|- \| style="~~Background:#efefef;~~ padding-left:10px;" \| A Coy. \| style="padding-left:10px;" \| + 30’ \|- \| style="~~Background:#efefef;~~ padding-left:10px;" \| C Coy. \| style="padding-left:10px;" \| + 35’ \|} Line 27: {\| class="wikitable" style="width:36%" \| style="~~Background:#efefef;~~ width:14%;" \| [[Bombardment]] \| style="width:11%;" \| \| style="width:11%;" \| <center>6-25'</center> \|- \| ~~style="Background:#efefef;"~~[[zero hour\| Zero]] \| \| <center>7-30'</center> \|- ~~\| style="Background:#efefef;"~~ \| Coy. dep C Strokes \| <center>+ 15'</center> \| <center>7-45'</center> \|- ~~\| style="Background:#efefef;"~~ \| Coy. dep D \| <center>+ 20'</center> \| <center>7-50'</center> \|- ~~\| style="Background:#efefef;"~~ \| Coy. dep B \| <center>+ 25'</center> \| <center>7-55'</center> \|- ~~\| style="Background:#efefef;"~~ \| Coy. dep A \| <center>+ 30'</center> \| <center>8-00'</center> \|- ~~\| style="Background:#efefef;"~~ \| Coy. dep C \| <center>+ 35'</center> \| <center>8-05'</center> \|- ~~\| style="Background:#444; color:white;"~~! colspan="3" \| <center>'''[[Barrage]]s''' </center> \|- ~~\| style="Background:#efefef;"~~ \| <center>A </center> \| <center>lifts at… </center> \| <center>0</center> \|- ~~\| style="Background:#efefef;"~~ \| <center>B </center> \| <center>”" </center> \| <center>3'</center> \|- ~~\| style="Background:#efefef;"~~ \| <center>C </center> \| <center>”" </center> \| <center>18'</center> \|- ~~\| style="Background:#efefef;"~~ \| <center>D </center> \| <center>”" </center> \| <center>28'</center> \|- ~~\| style="Background:#efefef;"~~ \| <center>E </center> \| <center>”" </center> \| <center>52'</center> \|- ~~\| style="Background:#efefef;"~~ \| <center>F </center> \| <center>”" </center> \| <center>1-18'</center> \|- ~~\| style="Background:#efefef;"~~ \| <center>G </center> \| <center>”" </center> \| <center>1-35'</center> \|- ~~\| style="Background:#efefef;"~~ \| <center>H </center> \| <center>”" </center> \| <center>18'</center> \|} Line 93: ''Important'' — Stokes carriers and D do not check early, so that A and B may arrive at Int. line in time. On arrival quick consolidate, and O.C. send reports. ''Water'' (special) in paraffin tins in [[Authuille Wood]].<ref group="lower-alpha">Tin baths full of water were also placed in the wood but were speedily shelled to pieces.</ref> == ~~References / notes~~Notes == {{reflist\|group=lower-alpha}} ~~<references/>~~ [[Category:~~Document~~Record ~~library~~of the 11th (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale)]]