The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment 23rd January1916

23^rd January 1916 – 

1st Battalion – Ordinary Routine.

2nd Battalion – Church Parade.

Officers 32.    Other Ranks 868.

From Hospital 1.

2/4^th Battalion –

1/5^th Battalion - H.Q. 18th Division left. The day was fine & warm & everyone was at last able to get clothes dry and themselves warm,

1/6^th Battalion – battalion marched to GONNEHEM for church parade.

7^th Battalion – The battalion was relieved by 8^th East Surrey Regt, by day & returned to billets at VILLE-SUR-ANCRE. During this tour of duty in the trenches, the Battalion did more constructive work than had been accoumplished, new communication trench 160 yards long was dug & cable buried a length of 1200 yards besides considerable other work.

Casualties during tour of duty in trenches, Officer, wounded accidently 1. O.R. Killed 3. Wounded 7 of which 1 remained at duty.

A draft of 21 N.C.O’s & men joined the Battalion, majority of these had previously served in France with 7^th or 8^th Battalions. Weather, very mild & little rain.

8^th Battalion – The battalion relieved the 8^th Buffs Regt in the left section of the left sector of trenches. Relief complete at 10.45pm.

The disposition of the unit was as follows:-

Trench	Grenadiers	Machine Gunners	Signallers	Riflemen	Total
A1, A2	32	6	5	36	79
H20	24	6	5	24	59
S20	8	-	-	7
S21	-	6	-	-
S22 S23 F13 YPRES Ramparts	- 32 46	- - 25	- - 6	8 68 68 200	129 68 277

Total trench Strength 612.

On our left is the West Yorks Regt, a unit of the 6^th Divn.

On our immediate right is the 1^st N.Staffs Regt a unit in our own Brigade.

On the right of our Bde, (72) is the 73^rd Bde, and on the right of this Divn (24) is the 50^th Division. The other two units of our Bde, - the 9^th E.Surrey Regt & the 8^th R.W. Kent Regt; are behind, in the rest camps.