100 Years Ago Today

​One hundred years ago, on 11 April 1917,
31st Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, Canadian Expeditionary Force was a sub-unit of the 8th Canadian Field Artillery Brigade in the 3rd Canadian Division. The Brigade war diary records:
12:14 p.m. L.O. 8th C.I.B. reports 6.9s firing from direction AVIONS from s.29.d.81/2.81/2.
12:55 p.m. L.O. 8th C.I.B. reports our right flank S.30 central and left flank S.29.b.81/2.,3.
1.30 p.m.   “       “      “          “         left Battalion being heavily shelled by batteries along railway in T.13.d
3.46 p.m. F.O.O. 35th Battery reports enemy shelling our support line and PRINZ ARNOLF GRABEN from direction of Haus No.1.
4.15 p.m. 30th Battery report hostile 4.1 Battery at about T.21.d.3.8
 
58th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, Canadian Expeditionary Force was a sub-unit of the 14th Canadian Field Artillery Brigade in the 5th Canadian Division. The Division was training in England and the Brigade war diary records:
WITLEY - A small skeleton scheme in conjunction with Inf. was worked out today.
 
5th Canadian Siege Battery, Canadian Artillery, Canadian Expeditionary Force war diary records:
Mt St Eloy - At Noon we fired 40 Rounds on Vimy Station in T19d 92.80. and then switched to La Chaudiere firing 20 Rounds into this place. A very good shoot on Hostile Battery S26 at S12d 49.15 was carried out during the afternoon by aeroplane observation. 199 Rounds were fired, the airman reporting that three gun-pits were totally destroyed and two other badly damaged.
100 Rounds were fired into BLIGHTY TRENCH and 78 on roads in S18a.
During the night we fired 96 Rounds in an intense bombardment on houses and North West portion of T19a. S4d 0.9 to S4b 0.1 tp S11a 9.3 ½.
 
The 15th Field Artillery Regiment RCA perpetuates the following sub units:
31st Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, Canadian Expeditionary Force,
58th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, Canadian Expeditionary Force,
5th Canadian Siege Battery, Canadian Artillery, Canadian Expeditionary Force,
68th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, North Russia Expeditionary Force, was not authorized to be formed until 3 August 1918, and
85th Battery, Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force was not authorized to be formed until 12 July 1918.