The Road to Chunuk Bair

Enemy sent a few shells into ARMENTIERES.

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We relieved 1st Otago in the trenches. The trenches much better
than the Armentieres sector.

Regimental Diary.
Place: Armentieres
Moved to Rue Nationale – Great clean up in view of move tomorrow.

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Routine work & usual fatigues. During the evening Pte Hammond posted missing in the raid was brought back wounded. S O S was sent up from 74 & 75 as the Germans were bombarding very heavily. Our artillery opened up and the Germans replied on the town. The battn “stood to” during the [...]

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We were relieved by Otago 2nd Battn and went into Reserve in Billets in Armentieres.
[Covering letter with Diary pages] 
To O.C. 7th West Coast Regt
            N.Z. Military Forces
                           from
                                 O.C. 7th West Coast Coy
                                 2nd Battn. Wellington Regt
                                             N.Z.E.F.
 Sir,
Enclosed find copy of the diary of the West Coast Coy 2nd Wellingtons. I should suggest [...]

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We are relieved by the 4th Bn NZRB and move out into reserve in Armentieres arriving in our billets at 3 a.m. on 24-5-16.
               10/3483 Pte Bilderbeck evacuated to Hospital.

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The Battalion marched out from Donlieu area in the evening and arriving in Armentieres in the early morning went into billets there.

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Routine Work.
Capt. Webber left for Armentieres taking 16 details per Coy.