94581 John Joseph Carruthers died of wounds aged 19 at No 1 Casualty Clearing Station and buried in Chocques Military Cemetery.
Son of Joseph and Ellen Carruthers of Hovingham in Malton Yorkshire. Native of Terrington.
Posted to the 3rd Battalion Sherwood Foresters on 7th September 1917 under Auth CRCC 100685/ 3.9.17. Arrived in France late 1917/early 1918 and posted to the 1/6th Sherwood Foresters.
269889 Pte Frederick William Gaunt from Pleasley died of wounds at the 23rd Casualty Clearing station
Enlisted into the 1/8th and arrived in France in August 1915. Later transferred to the 1/7th Battalion and posted to the 1/5th Battalion on the disbandment of the Robin Hood Rifles in 1918.
1/4/18: Usual harassing fire of hostile artillery. Nothing else to report.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
L/Cpl 6006/267188 Sydney George Currie from Surry died of wounds
Arrived in France in 1916 and previously served with the 1/7th Sherwood Foresters. Most Oakley transferred to the 1/6th Sherwood Foresters on the disbandment of the 1/7th Battalion.
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.
Derbyshire Territorials in the Great War 