On this day 16th November 1917

16/11/1917 SUPPORT: Battalion moved to NOYELLES.

1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]


16/XI/17: GOCs 138 Infantry Brigade and 139 Infantry Brigade exchange Command of sections at 10am.

Lt.-Col. JE BLACKWALL DSO assumes Temporary Command of 139th Infantry Brigade as Brig.-General GGS CAREY proceeds on leave to England.Blackwall JE portrait

John Eaton Blackwall (1873-1953)

ST ELIE SECTOR appears very quite.

139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]

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