On this day 2nd October 1916

The Battalion relieved the 5th Battalion in the RIGHT SECTOR of trenches in front of Bellacourt.

right sector

Wounded during the relief was 3003 Pte Frank Guy Harvey who suffered a GSW in his right shoulder.

Harvey

Frank was a domestic servant from North Street in Wirksworth and enlisted into the 6th Reserve Battalion in October 1914 aged 17. After training with the 9th Provisional and 3/6th Battalion he was posted to the 1/6th Battalion and arrived in France on 11th June with the 11th Reinforcement. After being wounded he was transferred to England and eventually discharged in November 1917.Harvey 2

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