Resting and training

  • 1st to 6th Sep
    Bayonet and Physical exercise
    Musketry
    Rapid loading
    Saluting
    Bathing
    Soccer
    Rugby
    Trench to trench attacks
    Advancing over open ground and making use of shell holes
  • 7th Sep
    “Route march to Butte de Warlencourt and went over the ground where the regiment was engaged during the second operations on the Somme in October last year.”
    Return march to Achiet-le-Petit
  • 8th to 11th Sep
    Boxing match
    New assembly formation on a 3 company front
    Bathing
    Brigade sports (4th SAI did not do well)
    Training over ground taped off and representing the ground over which the operation up north will be carried out.
    Soccer
    Rugby