No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
16th March: Enemy artillery was active during the day on:-
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
15.3.18 BEURY: 2/Lieut RW OAKLEY from hospital (South of France)
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
15th March: Enemy artillery was active during the day on :-
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
73880 Pte Herbert Ashpole was killed in action
14.3.18 BEUVRY: Battalion moved into Brigade support of CAMBRIN SECTOR.
14.3.18 BEUVRY: Captain EF WINSER attached to 465 Field Company RE. 2/Lt JF DENNIS on leave.
Eric Franklin Winser joined the 6th Battalion on the 5th October 1917 and was still serving at the end of the War. He won the Military Cross in 1918. John Francis Dennis transferred from the Robin Hood Rifles on the 14th January 1917 and and was still serving with the 1/6th Battalion at the end of the War.
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
14th March: Brigade took over centre sector of the Divisional Front. The sector in known as ‘CAMBRIN SECTOR’.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
Harold Dolby was from Brimington and enlisted in February 1915. He arrived in France in 1916 and was previously wounded at Lievin on the 30th May 1917.
Fred Watts was from Calow and enlisted in June 1915 and arrived in France in 1916.
Both men were most likely wounded on the working party that claimed the lives of their comrades the previous day
There is no specific information on how these three men died, but at the time the 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters were providing working parties for cable burying and it is most likely that they were killed during this work, possible the result of shell fire.
Two men were also mortally wounded at this time.
Joseph Askew was a 32 year old labourer from Eckington who enlisted into the 2/6th Battalion in October 1914. He was transferred to the 1/6th Battalion in August 1915 and arrived in France with the III Reinforcement. He injured his eye and returned to hospital in England in December 1915. Joined the 6th Reinforcement in March 1916 in time for the Battle of the Somme.
11.3.18 BEUVRY: 2/Lieut CF BARHAM on leave.
Cecil Fisher Barham
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
7th to 13th March: Training carried on under Battn arrangements. Training chiefly devoted to musketry, close order drill and route marching. Large working parties were found by Battns in turn. Cable burying.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
6.3.18 LAIRES: Battalion marched to AUCHY-AU-BOIS and there embussed for BEUVRY. Transport Lines at QUESNOY.
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
6th March: Bde Group move from BOMY and ST HILAIRE area to BEUVRY area by motor lorry. Destinations of units are:-
Brigade in Divisional Reserve.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
5th March: 5th Sherwood Foresters march from ERNY ST-JULIEN to AUCHY-AU-BOIS. 8th Sherwood Foresters march from ENQUIN to WESTREHAM.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
4.3.18 LAIRES: Lt CVHC BLACKWALL on leave.
Charles Victor Henry Cheetham Blackwall
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
Derbyshire Territorials in the Great War 