Chapter 10b – Aisne

Tuesday, 28th May At 1am, the German 10th Divn crossed the Vesle near Bazoches sur Vesle and pushed on to the woods of Dole. The 5th Guards Divn crossed the Vesle to the…

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1.  13^th Divn, 11^th Corps 
2.  Bonne Maison Farm aerodrome had been a busy ‘Service Aéronautique’, airfield and the home of Battle Group 12 (Flight of the Storks) 
3.  Sidney Rogerson reports 8^th Divn between Romain and Les Grand Savarts (Map Ref: 559.5464) 
4. Maj.Gen Henry Cholmondeley Jackson (1879-1972) - GOC 50^th Divn – formerly CO 1^st Bedfordshire Regt.
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6.  4^th NF War Diary 
7.  11^th Cheshire Regt, 8^th Border Regt, 2^nd South Lancashire Regt (75^th Bde, 25^th Divn)
8.  8am in the 4^th NF War Diary 
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10.  3^rd Worcestershire Regt, 11^th Lancashire Fusiliers, 9^th Loyal North Lancashire Regt (74^th Bde, 25^th Divn)
11.  Lt Col. Frederick Walton ( - 1969) – 6^th DLI 
12.  Lt Col. Philip Kirkup (1894-1959) (8^th DLI, 151^st Bde, 50^th Divn) 
13.  413^th, 414^th and 416^th Regts 
14.  4^th KSLI, 8^th North Staffordshire Regt, 9^th Cheshire Regt (56^th Bde), 10^th Warwickshire Regt, 8^th Gloucester Regt, 9^th Worcester Regt (57^th Bde) and 9^th Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 9^th Welsh Regt, 2^nd Wiltshire Regt (58^th  Bde,19^th Divn) 
15.  2^nd Wiltshire Regt, 6^th Wiltshire Regt, 9^th Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 9^th Welsh Regt (58^th Bde, 19^th Divn) 
16.  French 413^th, 414^th and 416^th Infantry Regts (154th Divn). (Parcours des Divisions) 
17.  Brig. Gen. George William St George Grogan (1875-1962) (23^rd Bde, 8^th Divn). King George V awarded him the VC at Ranchicourt (HQ 1st Army) on the 1^st of August 1918 in recognition of his leadership between the 27^th and 29^th of May 1918. London Gazette, 25^th Jul 1918. [zotpressInText item="{MPJPRE6I}"] 
18.  Lt Col. Moore (1^st Sherwood Foresters (24^th Bde, 8^th Divn) 
19.  The A4 Autoroute now runs along this ridge
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21.  21^st, 109^th, 143^rd Infantry Regts (French 13^th Divn). (Parcours des Divisions) 
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23.  6^th South Wales Borderers were the 25^th Divn pioneer Bn 
24. 56^th Bde, 19^th Divn 
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26.  22^nd, 30^th, 99^th and 112^th Infantry Regts - French 28^th Divn 
27. 150th, 161^st and 251^st Infantry Regts - French 40^th Divn
28.  Gen. George Darell Jeffreys, 1^st Baron Jeffreys, KCB, KCVO, CMG, DL (1878-1960)
29. Cuisles Chateau is four miles south of Romigny
30.  Lt Col. N.W Stead (4^th East Yorks, 150^th Bde, 50^th Divn) 
31.  The 22^nd DLI was attached to the 19^th (Western) Divn 
32. 1/6^th Cheshire Regt - 75^th Bde, 25^th Divn 
33. [zotpressInText item="{NH3TRT6B}"] 
34. 50^th Divn Diary
35. 22^nd, 99^th - 55^th Bde  and 30^th and 112^th Infantry Regts - 56^th Bde
36.  150^th, 161^st and 251^st Infantry Regts  
37. Major General George Darell.Jeffreys (1878-1960) – GOC 19^th Divn and former CO of the 2^nd Grenadier Guards
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39. 5^th NF War Diary (Adjutant 5. N., 1918)
40. South of Epernay
41.  Maj. Barnes (4^th Yorks, 150^th Bde, 50^th Divn) 
42.  57^th Bde, 19^th Divn)
43.  French 99^th Regiment of Foot
44. Vert la Gravelle – (VertToulon) – south of Epernay and north-east of Sezanne
45. Two platoons 4^th Yorks and two 5^th Yorks (4th_Yorkshire_Regt, 1918)
46. Maj. Barnes (4^th Yorks, 150^th Bde, 50^th Divn)
47. Brig Gen. Francis James Marshall formerly of the Seaforth Highlanders 
48.  (8th Battalion War Diary, May 1918)
49. The Montagne de Reims is a plateau with a maximum height of 288 metres. Its subsoil is made of chalk, clay, sands and limestone
50.  Lt Col V. M. Fitzhugh formerly the CO of 6^th Berkshire Regt (disbanded Feb 1918) 
51. Brig. Gen. Percy M. Robinson. Formerly the CO of 6^th Royal West Kent Regt 
52.  99^th Regt, 55^th Bde, 28^th Divn 
53. 22^nd, 24^th & 43^rd Colonial Infantry Regts  
54. Napoli Bde, 3^rd Divn, Italian 2^nd Corps 
55.  Salerno Bde, 3^rd Divn, Italian 2^nd Corps 
56.  General Vittorio Emanuele Pittaluga 
57. Alberico Albricci (b.1864- Gallarate, Lombardy, Italy)
58. 2^nd Italian Corps (Le 2ème Corps D'Armee Italien S'Installe Sur La Montagne De Reims, Juin, Debut Juillet 1918)
59.  Brescia Bde, 8^th Divn 
60. Map 2 - The Bois de Courton
61. 58^th Composite Bn was comprised of the 2^nd Wilts 
62. 2^nd Wiltshire Bn War Diary (2nd_Wiltshire_Adjutant)
63.  Brig Gen. Richard Edgar Sugden. Formerly CO of 4^th Duke of Wellington’s Regt. Promoted to Brig. Gen. on 7 June 1918 as GOC 151^st Bde, 50^th Divn 
64.  19^th & 20^th Regts (Brescia Bde) and 51^st & 52^nd Regts (Alpina Bde, 8^th Divn) 
65.  Napoli and Salerno Bdes (3^rd Divn) 
66.  Bligny is the site of an Italian cemetery where the remains of 5000 Italian soldiers are buried. The majority were killed during the 2^nd Battle of the Marne
67.  Les Essarts le Vicomte is south-west of Sezanne 
68.  Broyes is north-east of Sezanne 
69. Capt. Joseph Galley Garrard from Whitley Bay was a former enlisted man (5/2480) who first embarked for France on the 20^th of Apr 1915 
70. The Croix de Guerre was a French medal which was awarded to soldiers who distinguished themselves by acts of heroism involving combat with the enemy. The medal is awarded to those who have been "mentioned in dispatches", meaning a heroic deed or deeds were performed meriting a citation from an individual's HQs unit