A recent post at the Canadian Expeditionary Forces bulletin board offered a link to a video about a Lee-Enfield SMLE configured for firing rifle-grenades. It has a grenade discharger cup and video gives an overview of this tool of battle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT1DyyCxf9Q
Summary November 1916 18th Battalion War Diary
Link to November 1916 War Diary Transcription November found the 18th Battalion approximately 50 kilometers from the hell that was the Somme. Now located in the Lens Sector in the vicinity of Bully-Grenay the Battalion was able to find relative rest and recuperation after the actions of September and October. The first part of the... Continue Reading →
Photos of the 18th Battalion?
Below are a series of photos I found online at New York Public Library Digital Collection. The caption refers to the unit as the 18th Br(Brigade) but according a post at C.E.F. Study Group this term was really only applicable to C.E.F. Army units serving in France and not to units stationed and training in... Continue Reading →
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 