During the night of the 13^th-14^th October the 6/Sherwood Foresters remained in the front line trenches and could hear the cries of the wounded in no-mans-land. Sometime during the night 2230 Sergeant Mathew Unwin was able to rescue a wounded man of the Staffordshire Brigade and for this act of heroism he was recommended for gallantry.

During the morning of the next day the Germans counter attacked, which fell heavily upon the 7/Sherwood Foresters and it was at this time that Captain CG Vickers won the Victoria Cross.