3.4.1916 TRENCHES: Bn relieved by 5th Bn Sherwood Foresters & moved into Huts & Billets at ACQ.

Casualties during tour:-

Killed – 2 Other Ranks

• 2448 Pte Hilary Carlin
• 3548 Pte Albert Housley

Wounded – 2/Lt F.W.A. STUBBS and 2/Lt J.E. Barker – slightly at Duty. 4 Other Ranks.

• 2608 Pte Leonard Pott 
• 2368 Pte Fred Nichols
• 3294 Pte Fred Webster
• 217 Sergt. Frederick Arthur Johnson
• 1637 Pte Thomas Wheatcroft

War Diary [WO/95/2694]

Quite day – A German aeroplane was brought down in our lines near the QUARRIES – both Germans were killed.

The 5th Battalion relieved the 6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters in the LEFT SECTOR Trenches, the latter going into Divisional Reserve in ACQ.

139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]