15.7.1917 FREVILLERS: 2/Lieut KH BOND MC to Command Letter “A” Company. 2/Lieut R EVANS to Command Letter “B” Company. 2/Lieut VTG HORE and LV BURROWS to I Corps School.
Kenneth Hills Bond and Richard Evans
Victor Thomas George Hore
Leonard Victor Burrows
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
14.7.1917 FREVILLERS: Capt VO ROBINSON MC attached to 1/5th Battalion to be 2nd in Command.
2/Lieut SN DURRANCE [sic] joined Battalion from England.
Sydney Norman Deurance
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
11.7.1917 FREVILLERS: Major AJ HOPKINS proceeded to 46th Divisional Depot Battalion.
Arthur John Hopkins
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
9.7.1917 FREVILLERS: 2/Lieut HW HIGHAM proceeded to join FRC as Observer on probation.
Harold Woolf Higham
2/Lieuts A COATES, RW OAKLEY and HG SHENTON joined Battalion from England.
Herbert George Shenton
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
6.7.1917 FREVILLERS: Capt J TOLSON proceeded on 1 month’s leave. Lieut BE JOHNSON proceeded on short leave. 2/Lieut KH BOND assumed Command of Letter “B” Company.
Joseph Tolson and Brian Eccles Johnson
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
5.7.1917 FREVILLERS: Major AJ HOPKINS and 2/Lieut KH BOND MC joined Battalion from England.
Arthur John Hopkins and Kenneth Hills Bond
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
24.6.1917 Bde Support: 2/Lt HS PINK and 2/LT LV BURROWS joined from England.
Leonard Victor Burrows
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
23.7.1917 FOSSE 10: Battalion relieved by 5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters and moved into Brigade Support dugouts in ST PIERRE.
2/Lt FS ROWLAND awarded Military Cross.
Frank Skinner Rowland
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
23 June: No change.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
7.6.1917: LONDON GAZETTE Capt FM DICK awarded MILITARY CROSS and CSM HH HOLLAND awarded DCM.
Frank Mackenzie Dick and Henry Houlsworth Holland
7.6.1917 FOSSE 10 SAINS EN GOHELLE: 2/Lt KH BOND transferred to England.
Kenneth Hills Bond
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
3.6.1917 LIEVIN SECTOR: 2/Lt LN JOHNSON MC killed in action whilst on working party (M.30.C.9.5).
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
2nd Lieut. LN Johnson’s death occurred on the 3rd June while in charge of a working party in the Bois de Raiumont, when an advanced trench was being dug for the assembly position of the 138th Infantry Brigade, who attacked from there a few days later.
Johnson was one of the Battalion’s most popular officers……and his grave is in the little cemetery between Fosse 10 and Sains-en-Gohelle, where rest the bodies of a good many of the Battalion’s Rank and file.
1/6th Battalion Regimantal History
Alban Offord from Retford died aged 21
The men were buried in either Fosse No.10 Communal Cemetery Extension in Sains-en-Gohelle, which was the site of the North Midland Field Ambulance, or in Noeux-Les-Mines Communal Cemetery by the 7th Casualty Clearing Station.
Derbyshire Territorials in the Great War 