Item 03: George R. Faulkner war diary, 6 July 1916-17 November 1916 - Page 115
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[Page 115]
Birdwood decorated many of the Rank and file of our Division at H.Q.
Saturday 14/4/17
Cold – Raw day – a little rain. Just doing jobs about the Camp. Heavy Artillery firing.
X Easter Sunday X 15/4/17
Drizzling rain all day. Helping to make shelter for our transport horses. Stan DClatke & I went up late in the evening to Irish Guards Canteen – just outside of La Fransloy & we bought for our mess about 100 Francs worth of tinned Sausages – Coffee & Milk – biscuits etc, we thought it was Xmas again. At daylight we got orders to be ready to move out at a moments notice – we found out later that units such as A.S.C. got orders to remove to Albert – because Fritz counter attacked the 1st & 2nd Divisions, he came over in mass formation 17 deep – he attacked & counter attacked six times – on one occasion he took 2 Villages from us & captured a lot of our guns – waggons etc – In a final dash our Boys not only got the Villages, guns & waggons back, but took 200 prisoners & two other Villages – Our Division went out to