- 1st June
Moved by train to Arras
Dirtiest billets ever taken over - 2nd to 4th June
Training
Cleaning
Baths
Working parties - 5th June
Isolation of targets
Extended order drill
Moved to Balmoral Camp in reserve for 26th & 27th Brigade operations - 6th June
All day at Balmoral Camp
Moved back to billets in Arras - 7th June
Cleaning billets - 8th June
Practice bayonet fighting
Rapid loading
Laying out trenches
Indication of targets - 9th June
Working parties cutting wires near Fampoux - 10th June
Moved to Stirling Camp under orders of the 26th Brigade
Found not needed and moved back to Arras billets - 11th June
Working parties to cut wires near Fampoux - 12th June
Arras shelled with 12″ shells - 13th to 16th June
Working party for XVII Corps repairing road that is now Ave. de l’Hermitage south of St. Laurent-Blangy - 17th June
Moved to Y Huts west of Etrun - 18th June
Kit inspections - 19th June
Saluting drill
Arms drill - 20th to 30th June
Rain stopped parades on 20th
Bayonet fighting practice
Rapid firing practice
Marching practice
Map reading
Rifle ranges
Lewis gun classes
Bombing classes
Inter-platoon football
Rapid wiring
Attack formations
Signalling
Rain interrupted night training on 28th
Throwing live bombs
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