27.3.1917 BACOUEL: 2/Lt RCF DOLLEY joined the Battalion
Second Lieutenant Reginald Charles Francis Dolley © IWM (HU 121347)
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139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]On this day 26th March
25.3.1917 VILLER-BOCAGE: Divisional Commander presented Military Medal ribbons to Sergeant Jackson, L/Cpl Parker and L/Cpl Hancock.
On the 8th March 1917, he was member of a patrol which went for 800 yards along unknown trenches in order to ascertain the exact location of the enemy. The patrol accounted for several Germans, but were compelled by superior numbers to fall back. 2nd Lieut Stubbs and Lance Corporal Parkes covered the withdrawal with great gallantry and coolness, and the patrol reached our lines without loss in spite of several attempts of enemy bombers to rush them.
Jasper Parkes was later killed in action on the 30th May 1917 along with 3 other men of the 1/6th Battalion and they are all buried in Fosse No.10 Communal Cemetery Extension in Sains-en-Gohelle.
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24.3.1917 Warloy-Baillon: Divisional Commander presented Military Cross ribbon to 2/Lt E KERSHAW.
Battalion marched into billets at VILLERS-BOCAGE.
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24th VILLERS BOCAGE: Bde Headquarters to Villers Bocage.
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23.3.1917 COURCELLES: Captain W SEATON and Captain CVHC BLACKWALL rejoined from Divisional Depot Battalion.
Battalion marched into billets at WARLOY-BAILLON.
William Seaton
Charles Victor Henry Cheetham
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23rd: Moved to CONTAY Area.
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22nd: Move into COURCELLE area.
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21.3.1917 BAYENCOURT: Battalion marched into billets at COURCELLES.
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21st: 5th & 6th Battns move to COURCELLES.
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20.3.1917 ST AMAND: 2/Lt E KERSHAW appointed Acting Adjutant. Battalion marched and billeted at BAYENCOURT.
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19.3.1917 ST AMAND: Lieut GKK MAUGHAN vacated the appointment of Adjutant. The Divisional Commander presented Military Medal Ribbons to Pte Miles and Pte Taylor.
2077/240401 Pte George Miles, London Gazette dated 26.4.917
2149/240438 Pte Bernard Taylor, London Gazette dated 26.4.1917
Both men were later killed in action during August 1918 in the Gorre Sector.
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18.3.1917 12 Midnight: Battalion relieved by 1/4th Battalion LINCOLNS and moved back into billets at ST AMAND. QM stores remaining at at SOUSTRE.
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Derbyshire Territorials in the Great War 
