The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment 23rd April 1916

23^rd April 1916 –

1st Battalion – Church parade in morning. Rugger match, officers of Queen’s & Worcesters v A.S.C., who won -

2nd Battalion – Easter Day. Beautiful Day.

During morning our trenches were shelled by 77mm guns. At 7.30pm to the minute the enemy opened concentrated artillery & trench mortar fire on B 2 Subsector (chiefly MANSEL COPSE) For an hour this continued during which time our guns had opened with intense retaliation. The regiment on our immediate left is the 2^nd Borders (20^th Bde) & it was against them that the enemy made this raid. It is still unknown for certain whether the enemy actually entered the Borders trenches& secured a few prisoners. The Borders casualties were 1 Officer & 18 O.R. Killed, & 2 Officers & about 40 O.R. wounded. Our trenches were slightly shelled – 2 wounded. All was normal again by 10pm.

Officers 34.    O.R. 921.

2/4^th Battalion –

1/5^th Battalion – Easter Sunday. No work. Parade service at 9.30. 30 huts had now been completed except in a few cases the floors for which owing to the work on the Bunds, mules could not be spared during the last half of last week. There had also been some delay owing to scarcity of reeds.

1/6^th Battalion – Battalion furnished working parties under R.E. also RATION PARTY for Battalion in Front Line.

7^th Battalion –

8^th Battalion –