4.8.1916 BAILLEUVAL: Inter Company Competitions in Bayonet fighting and gas helmet drill. Winners, Bayonet fighting “A” Coy; Gas helmet drill, bombers.

4.8.1916 BAILLEUVAL: Relieved 5th Sherwood Foresters in RIGHT SECTOR.

War Diary [WO/95/2694]

Augt 4: Returned to trenches for rather uneventful but never the less busy time.

[Lieutenant Josiah Taylor]

3/4th: Our front line between SAP 14 & 15 (RIGHT SECTOR) shelled by German Field Battery intermittently during night.

4th: A quite day. Battalion relief completed by 11.50pm, 5th Sherwoods going into Brigade Reserve at BELLACOURT & the 7th into Divisional Reserve at BAILLEULVAL.

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