No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
20/XII/1917: One of our patrols entered German front line trench during night. Proceeded 80 yards along it without encountering any of the enemy.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
43671 Pte George Large from Nottingham was killed in action
Previously served with the 16th (Chatsworth Rifles) and 15th (Bantam) Battalions
No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
20/XII/1917: Artillery very quite. Normal activity of TMs.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
19/XII/1917: Some slight shelling of right subsection during the day. Nothing else to report.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
18/XII/1917: Hostile artillery quit. Wing bombs very active on posts of the right subsection. Our snipers claim a hit. Air photographs show a new enemy trench under construction in G6c.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
17/12/1917 ST ELIE RIGHT: Lt.-Col. BW VANN MC rejoined from leave and resumed command of the Battalion.
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
17/XI/1917: Hostile artillery and TMs unusually quiet. Preparations were completed for firing gas bombs on German trenches from 4″ TMs on the first night that the wind is favourable.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
16/12/1917 VERQUIN: The Battalion relieved 5th Sherwood Foresters in ST ELIE RIGHT SECTOR.
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
16/XI/1917: Little hostile artillery or TM activity. Hostile aircraft again active during the morning, but none crossed our lines. Inter Battalion reliefs during the night.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
Herbert Henry Jackman served with the 2nd Battalion in the Tirah Campaign of 1897-98 (Awarded Medal and Clasps for Tirah & Punjab); the Boer War of 1899-1902 (QSA and Clasps for Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1902); Joined 1st Battalion at Rustenburg in South Africa on 8th April 1902 as L/Cpl.
He joined the 6th Battalion in 1908 and arrived in France on 25.2.15.
Mentioned in Dispatches, London Gazette 1st January 1916.
Later transferred to Labour Corps (403164); Drowned on 16.12.17 whilst serving with the 857th Area Employment Coy of the Labour Corps.
No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
15/XI/1917: Hostile aircraft active during the morning, but did not cross our line. PHILOSOPHE was shelled during the morning. Otherwise there was only slight artillery and TM activity.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
14/XII/1917: Normal TM activity. Our snipers claim to have made 5 hits during the day.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
13/XII/1917: Hostile artillery and TMs very active during the night owing to operations by Brigade on our left, but quite during the day. A patrol of 7th Sherwood Foresters under Lt J WINNICOTT entered German front line in G11b but found it unoccupied.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
203663 Pte Lewis Reginald Nilan from Warsop was killed in action aged 19
“Pte Reg Nilan aged 19 has been killed by a German Wing Bomb. No physical wounds, but killed by the shock of the bomb exploding against him”
[Mansfield Chronicle Advertiser; 23/12/1917]
Derbyshire Territorials in the Great War 