10th Battalion patch. Image courtesy Australian War Memorial
10th Battalion – August 1917
August 1 – SENINGHAM
Battalion training.
2
Battalion training demonstration.
3-5
Battalion training specialist work.
6 – STAPLE
Battalion move by route march and bus.
7
Battalion drill. Gas drill specialist work. Recreation in afternoon.
8
Battalion bathing. Specialist work. Recreation in afternoon.
9 – BLEU
Route march from Staple. No stragglers.
10
Battalion drill. Inspection of all clothing and equipment.
11
Coy training in rapid formations. Bathing.
12
Church parade and march past. G.O.C. brigade.
13
Battalion drill. Lecture and inspection by Div. Gas. officer.
14
Coy training. Bombing, etc.
15
Battalion drill, specialist work. Recreation in afternoon.
16
Battalion route march (18 miles [in] fighting order).
17
Battalion drill, gas training. Recreation in afternoon.
18
Battalion sport.
19
Church parade and march past G.O.C. brigade.
20
Battalion drill. Specialist work. Musketry in afternoon.
21
Battalion route march (15 miles [in] marching order).
22
Brigade sport.
23
Battalion drill. Specialist work.
24
Inspection by G.O.C. 3rd Infantry Brigade.
25
Coy training. Rapid Art. formations and extension.
26
Church parade and march past. G.O.C. brigade.
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Company training and inspection of kit.
28
March past and inspection by G.O.C. 2nd Army.
29
Route march (14 miles) and bombing [Appendix 5 – Training memorandum No. 2 in bomb throwing and rifle grenade use].
30
Bathing, parade and specialist work [Appendix 6 – and laundering of clothes].
31
Coy training and night training by platoons.
SELECTED APPENDIX NOTES
Appendix 1 – Training Programme. Battalion will leave billets each day at 8am and return to billets at 4pm.
Appendix 6 – All members of the 10th Battalion will bath…and receive a complete change of underclothing…Baths to be ready for use at 0730 [am]…Dirty underclothing to be returned direct to the Clothing Exchange Officer on completion of bath.
Appendix 7 – Order No. 33 [for attack scheduled for August 2, 1917]. Contents of [store and supply] dumps.
Brigade dump – 24 hours’ water and rations for 1000 men, 50 coils barbed wire, 50 coils French wire, 200 long screw Picquets, 150 short screw Picquets, 30,000 rounds SAA [standard army ammunition], 500 rounds Stokes mortar ammunition, 5000 Mills grenades no. 5, 1000 rifle grenades (Mills), 3 boxes 1” very lights, 20 sets SOS.
Battalion main dump – 24 hours’ water and rations for 1000 men, 20 coils barbed wire, 20 coils French wire, 100 long screw Picquets, 90 short screw Picquets, 10,000 rounds SAA, 600 rounds Stokes mortar ammunition, 2000 Mills grenades no. 5, 500 rifle grenades (Mills), 1 box 1” very lights, 5 sets SOS.
Battalion left dump – 10 coils barbed wire, 10 coils French wire, 50 long screw Picquets, 50 short screw Picquets, 5000 rounds SAA, 150 rounds Stokes mortar ammunition, 800 Mills grenades no. 5, 150 rifle grenades (Mills), 1 box 1” very lights, 15 sets SOS.
Battalion right dump – same as battalion left dump.
