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 In August 1916 his brigade was withdrawn from the Somme and deployed to the Ypres salient.
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Wednesday, 22 June 2011
War Diary Entry: 22nd June 1916 (Missing)
This day's diary entry is missing. CHTL occasionally notes a day but writes little or nothing, Sundays usually. But the 22nd was a 'swap' of note keeping methods from a small pocket diary to loose pages. These loose pages cover the next 14 or so eventful days of the bomardment, attack and aftermath. During this time CHTL's HQ was a shell-proof bunker in amore forward position, so one could assume that he was 'travelling light', or had left his diary safe behind the lines.
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