Cavan came in to call on us about 10am, he is commanding the corps we are relieving. Got a message from Percy Radcliffe asking me to come and see him at Canadian Corps Hd Qrs and that Dill was there too, so I rode over to lunch calling in to see the battns on the way. Byng is in command of the Canadian corps, he used to command our Corps at Suvla. He said he was very glad to see us again, Percy was looking very fit, Dill was out for the day. I also knew Farmer who is their Bde Gen: Administration.
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 In August 1916 his brigade was withdrawn from the Somme and deployed to the Ypres salient.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, 28 July 2011
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