The brigade moved by train to Poperinghe. Bde hd qrs left Doullens at 9am followed by battns at 3 hours interval. We did the journey in 6 hours which was very quick. Got into our hd qrs at Proven St (where all the troops detrained) by tea time. The Battns went into camps just N of Poeringhe.
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 In August 1916 his brigade was withdrawn from the Somme and deployed to the Ypres salient.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, 27 July 2011
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