The Battle of Loos

At mid-day on the 12^th October the 6/Sherwood Foresters marched up the Len’s Road in “fighting order” until they reached Noyelles where they were issued tea by a roadside canteen. At the onset of darkness the Battalion continued onto Clark’s Keep on the edge of Vermelles and were issued with shovels, picks and other trench stores. Moving by Companies the Battalion advanced up the main communication trenches, Gordan and Hullach Alley, to the assembly positions in front of the heavily fortified trench system known locally as Hohenzollern Redoubt.