On this day 12th December
1837 - 43rd - reached Jones's Settlement in the march across the Portage of the Madawaska. (Canada)
1915 – 2nd Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – In Trenches CUINCHY A1.
9am – Relieved 1/Queens in A1 Sub section.
Headquarters are now in HARLEY STREET instead of at WOBURN ABBEY.
The line has also been rearranged as follows:-
1 Company: -
1 Platoon in trenches South of LA BASSEE Road.
1 Platoon in WATERLOO Place and OXFORD Street
1 Platoon in STAFFORD Redoubt
1 Company:-
2 Platoons in and about RIDLEY WALK area,
2 Platoons in CUINCHY Support Point,
1 Company:-
2 Platoons in BRADDELL Point,
1 ½ Platoons in CAMBRIN Support Point,
1 Section in TOURBIERES Redoubt.
1 Company in Reserve in HARLEY Street.
12th-14th – One company of 13th Essex Regiment took its place in line as Left Front Company for 24 hours at a time.
Weather improving but trenches have become so bad that fewer are now ordered to be kept up.
With the exception of some whizz-bangs at intervals enemy very quiet, as also during 6th-10th in B1 Area.
1915– 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – COUIN
Battalion in billets.
Route March cancelled.
1962 – 1st GREEN JACKETS (43rd & 52nd) - Arrived in Miri, Sarawak and proceeded
to deal with the revolt in that area.
1837 - 43rd - reached Jones's Settlement in the march across the Portage of the Madawaska. (Canada)
1915 – 2nd Bn Oxf & Bucks LI – In Trenches CUINCHY A1.
9am – Relieved 1/Queens in A1 Sub section.
Headquarters are now in HARLEY STREET instead of at WOBURN ABBEY.
The line has also been rearranged as follows:-
1 Company: -
1 Platoon in trenches South of LA BASSEE Road.
1 Platoon in WATERLOO Place and OXFORD Street
1 Platoon in STAFFORD Redoubt
1 Company:-
2 Platoons in and about RIDLEY WALK area,
2 Platoons in CUINCHY Support Point,
1 Company:-
2 Platoons in BRADDELL Point,
1 ½ Platoons in CAMBRIN Support Point,
1 Section in TOURBIERES Redoubt.
1 Company in Reserve in HARLEY Street.
12th-14th – One company of 13th Essex Regiment took its place in line as Left Front Company for 24 hours at a time.
Weather improving but trenches have become so bad that fewer are now ordered to be kept up.
With the exception of some whizz-bangs at intervals enemy very quiet, as also during 6th-10th in B1 Area.
1915– 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – COUIN
Battalion in billets.
Route March cancelled.
1962 – 1st GREEN JACKETS (43rd & 52nd) - Arrived in Miri, Sarawak and proceeded
to deal with the revolt in that area.
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