No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]

Hill 70 Sector

1/X/17: Quiet day. Enemy appears engaged in the improvement of his position deepening trenches etc. Our artillery bombarded hostile dumps and communications during the night of 1/2nd.

2/X/17: Hostile artillery quiet in the sector. Nothing to report.

3/X/17: Some hostile TM activity on left sub sector. Much work still being done by enemy.

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

Casualties on these days

• 81370 Pte William James Thompson of the 1/5th Battalion.
• 267377 Pte David Owen of the 1/7th Battalion. Aged 26 and Son of Jonas and Harriet Owen of 22 Diamond Avenue in East Kirkby, Nottingham.