Skip to navigation | Skip to content | Skip to footer

Key dates over September 1917

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Lives lost on this day: 7

30th September 1917 - Enemy seen in No Man’s Land

Rolling casualty count: 7682

War Front:

1st Batt: Batt still in the trenches. Men working on wiring. A paper balloon was sent over by the enemy carrying 3 copies of the Gazette des Ardennes.

2nd Batt: There was Church Parade at 3.30pm.

4th Batt: Church Parade and men were bathing.

2/7th Batt: Batt relieved the 2/8th Worcs in the right sub-sector of the left Brigade. Relief completed at 9.30 pm without incident.

2/8th Batt: At 1am a heavy barrage of machine guns and artillery fell on the Front Line and the enemy was seen in No Man’s Land. They were driven back by our artillery and Lewis guns. 6 other ranks were wounded. In the evening the Batt was relieved by 2/7th Worcs.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team