Brigadier General CHT Lucas was CO of the 87th Brigade on the Somme. An Old Contemptible and Captain in the BEF, he had spent 1915 in the Dardanelles. This blog is made up of his Diary entries and letters written in the Summer of 1916. These are his words, published on the corresponding day as when they were written in 1916. In August 1916 his brigade was withdrawn from the Somme and deployed to the Ypres salient.
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Thursday, 9 June 2011
War Dairy Entry: 9th June, 1916
Met Monkhouse at 10am in the RA observation post on the high ground just behind Hamel & had a good view of all the ground round Beaucourt and the redoubt. Chamberlayne suddenly turned up at about midday, he is attached to the 36th Divn. Havent seen him for years. He stopped to lunch, Ellis also lunched. Rode in to tea at Acheux. Armytage was there from GHQ. Cameron Reed turned up to be attached to the KOSBs as chaplain in the place of Ritchie.
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