On this day 12th September 1916

No record in the War Diary [WO/95/2694]


12th: MARTINETS WOOD and our left sector support line shelled during the afternoon.

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


3905 Pte John Lovett3905 Lovett

3905 Pte John Lovett a miner from Brampton who enlisted in February 1915 and arrived in France with the V Reinforcement in November 1915 was admitted to the 1/3rd North Midland Field Ambulance having received an acute kid in the abdomen from a horse. He was later transferred to the 20 Casualty Clearing Station where he died of his injuries 3 days later. He is buried in WARLINCOURT HALTE BRITISH CEMETERY.

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