The Wartime Memories Project - The Great War - Day by Day

The Great World War - Day by Day is a NEW section we are currently building.

From diary entries and letters we hope to build a picture of what it was really like to live through the events of the war.

If you have any wartime diaries or letters or dated photographs please Click here and use the form to add them to this archive.

At 3.10 am on 7th June 1916 mines were detonated on Messines Ridge.

A group of Royal Engineers taken on 7th June 1916.

In Memory of those who died this Day

Pte. William Ainsworth. 13th Battalion Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment).
Pte. William John Croft. 24th Bn. Canadian Inf. (Quebec Regt.)
Sgt. Walter William Davison. 52nd Bn. Canadian Inf. (Manitoba Regt.)
Pte. Maurice Duggan. 6th Battalion. Royal Irish Regiment. Read his Story
Lieutenant Arthur Clark Rose Kearns. 1st Battalion. Gloucestershire Regiment. (att. Worc. Rgt)
Pte Lawrence O'Brien. 8th Batn. Royal Munster Fusiliers.
Pte. John Carron Sime. 24th Bn. Canadian Inf. (Quebec Regt.)
Sowar Mihan Singh. 2nd Lancers (Gardner's Horse).
Pte Harry Reginald Toft. "D" Company, 26th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment).
John William Tolliday. Durham Light Infantry.

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