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War Diary

1916-03-20
Regiment 1st Royal Berkshire
Location France, SOUCHEZ RIGHT
Entry Everything normal. Intermittent shelling by light field guns all day. Headquarters trench shelled by 6" howitzer at 1 pm (6 shells) and again at 5.30pm (4 shells). Officers of 1st Worcesters, 24th Bgd, 23rd Division came up to Headquarters in the afternoon with a view to taking over the line from us tomorrow night. Beautiful day. Casualties, one wounded