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On this day 28th July 1916

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28.7.1916 BELLACOURT: Raid on TALUS, see appendices TALUS Raid

For more details see here

War Diary [WO/95/2694]

July 28: Made a raid on G trenches at same point. Party (50 strong) got into trench but raid failed owing to lack of opposition. No Huns turned up. Today I received a Buxton Advertiser with part of this diary in it. Feel very annoyed.

[Lieutenant Josiah Taylor]

28th: Quite day. During the night a party of 20 NCOs & men under 2/Lieut EVANS & 8 Sergeants under 2/Lieut KERSHAW from the 1/6th Sherwoods attempted to raid he TALUS.

3 other ranks wounded.

Drafts of 17 other ranks for Battalion arrived.

139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]Talus July 1916

On this day 14th December

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Lieutenant Cyril George RADFORD was awarded the Military Cross for a trench raid carried out on the 4-5th November 1917.

“For gallantry and devotion to duty when in command go the Right Party in a raid on the German trenches N.W. of Loos during the night 4/5th November 1917, though severely wounded in the stomach at the start, he led his men to the final objective in the enemy second line. After much hard fighting in which several of the enemy were killed, he succeeded in capturing four prisoners. After the recall signal, though suffering severely from his wounds, he remained to see all the wounded safely brought back”.