18/19.6.1916 SUS ST LEGER: Marched to FONQUEVILLERS & relieved 4th LINCS in SUPPORT. QM Stores & Transport lines to LA BAZIQUE FARM.

War Diary [WO/95/2694]

June 17: After the usual sort of so called rest (about 10-12 hours work a day) I took signals down to trenches. Slept on hammock in rec. Parcel from home.

June 18: Very heavy day laying new armoured cable. So heavy that it takes 6 men to carry a 1/4 mile cable. Battn arrived at night. CO & Adjt mentioned in dispatches. Lived in my old dugout. Much for a blanket very cold.

[Lieutenant Josiah Taylor]

18th: Brigade moved in accordance with copy of Operations Order 61 attached. The 8th Battalion SF going into the line & the 6th Battn SF into SUPPORT in FONQUEVILLERS. Everything went off all right & the relief was completed by 12-5 AM 19th.

Units are now stationed as under:-

• Brigade HQrs at HUMBERCAMPS
• 5th Battn at POMMIER
• 6th Battn at FONQUEVILLERS
• 7th Battn at BIENVILLERS
• 8th Battn in trenches
• Bde MG Coy & ™ Battery at POMMIER

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