On this day 27th September:-
1810 - Battle of Busaco; Pte. James Hopkins, 52nd, in this action took prisoner the French General Simon.
1915 – 2nd Bn Oxf & Bucks LI -IN TRENCHES AT GIVENCHY.
Three quiet days and nights. (26th-29th)
Trench Mortars and Minenwerfers occasionally damaged the trenches.
A great deal of rain fell during this period.
Casualties: 3 Wounded.
1915– 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – HEBUTERNE
Battalion in Trenches.
Quiet Day.
Enemy shelled with Shrapnel intermittently.
1810 - Battle of Busaco; Pte. James Hopkins, 52nd, in this action took prisoner the French General Simon.
1915 – 2nd Bn Oxf & Bucks LI -IN TRENCHES AT GIVENCHY.
Three quiet days and nights. (26th-29th)
Trench Mortars and Minenwerfers occasionally damaged the trenches.
A great deal of rain fell during this period.
Casualties: 3 Wounded.
1915– 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion – HEBUTERNE
Battalion in Trenches.
Quiet Day.
Enemy shelled with Shrapnel intermittently.
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