The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment 13th January1916

13^th January 1916 – 

1st Battalion – C.S.M. Larkin Killed and 2 Other Ranks Wounded.

2nd Battalion – Officers 32.    Other Ranks 867.

2/4^th Battalion –

1/5^th Battalion – BUTANIYEH.

The camp was on a good dry sandy spot with a lake on the S & W front. During the night of the 12/13th the horses of the 12th Cavalry stampeded through the lines & took 10 out of the 12 M.G. mules with them. The missing; stores were found to have been deposited by the hired camels in the lines of the 12th Cavalry.

1/6^th Battalion – LE TOURET.

The Battalion relieved the 11^th Bn, The Middlesex regt, in the reserve billets at LE TOURET Companies taking over corresponding Company’s billets “A” Coy found a garrison of 1 N.C.O. & 3 men for TUNING FORK EAST KEEP & ROUTE “A” KEEP the relief was complete by 3pm.

7^th Battalion – In billets nothing to record.

8^th Battalion – The 9^th E.Surrey Regt on our left was relieved by the 1 N.Staffs. The Bombing posts

in our trenches and our Signallers were relieved by the 13^th Middlesex Regt Grenadiers and Signallers in the evening. Guides were provided for them from the MENIN GATE.

Quiet day.