Does this War diary entry make sense or am I mistaken?

[CassieRae]

The 7th (Service) Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry was raised at Oxford in September 1914 as part of Kitchener's Third New Army and joined 78th Brigade, 26th Division.

The units of the new division began to to assemble in the Salisbury Plain area from September 1914. Training was much improvised as equipment and Khaki uniforms were not available until early spring 1915.

They proceeded to France on the 21st September 1915, landing at Boulogne and the division concentrated at Guignemicourt to the west of Amiens.

Army War Diary shows this:

Army War Diary shows this:
"21st September 1915 To Billets at LesQuesnoy
 Arterial bombardment today on frontline & 2nd line trenches were
 r[eame]d by half in strength and one Co. returned to billets at dawn.
In the afternoon the 2/Worcestershire Regt relieved the Regt in B3.
Casulaties: 20th 1 man killed
                  21st 2 men wounded."

 

It is text in italics that I am concerned about if Alfred was KIA on 21st this isn't shown.

Edited 29 June , 2020 by CasseRae
left out place

[tootrock]

13969 Leach, A, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, was killed on 6 October 1915.

21 September 1915 (on the card) is the date he went to France.

Martin

[CassieRae]

Oh dear I was really tired looking this up.  Thank you for checking this. Will try reading diary for the correct date now! Thank you!

 

[AOK4]

30 minutes ago, CasseRae said:

 

 

Army War Diary shows this:
"21st September 1915 To Billets at LesQuesnoy
 Arterial bombardment today on frontline & 2nd line trenches were
 r[eame]d by half in strength and one Co. returned to billets at dawn.
In the afternoon the 2/Worcestershire Regt relieved the Regt in B3.
Casulaties: 20th 1 man killed
                  21st 2 men wounded."

 

 

 

Shouldn't that be: Aerial bombardment and reduced by half?

Jan

[CassieRae]

Probably should Jan - thank you. the r[eame]d is what is looked like but did not make sense to me. Looking at it again, I can see the top half of the 'd' which does ake this reduced. It also shows I should have ts the Arterial bombardment  as Artillery Bombardment