6.2.1917 SOUASTRE: Battalion moved into huts in HALLOY and commenced special training.
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
6th: A quiet day. 6th Battalion march to Halloy for training.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
5th 10am: A field battery near Essarts fired 30 rounds into the support line of our left trenches.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
4.2.1917 Trenches: Relived by 5th Battalion in RIGHT SECTOR and moved back to Divisional Reserve in SOUASTRE.
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
4th: A quite day 5th and 7th Battalions took over the front line.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
A gardener from Haynes in Bedfordshire, who was posted to the 3/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters in March 1916. He was transferred to the 1/6th Battalion with the 14th Reinforcement in July 1916 but then posted to the 1/7th Battalion later that month.
No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
3rd 9.15pm: About forty field gun shells fired into FONQUEVILLERS.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
2nd: Enemy fired about 30 77mm shells onto Green Street and the front line during the morning.
8th Sherwood Foresters take over HQrs and the right Coy front (up to Trench 60) of 4th Lincoln Regiment.
A party of 91st Reserve Infantry Regiment approached our front north of the Gommecourt Road – threw several bombs and were driven off by Lewis Gun fire. The bodies of 1 Lieutenant and 1 NCO of the party were subsequently brought into our lines. the former being found within 15 yards of our parapet.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
1st: A quite day. During the night a small party of the enemy approached our front line just North of the Gommecourt Road. Several bombs were thrown short of our trench and the party were driven off by Lewis Gun fire.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
31.1.917: Relieved 5th Battalion and took over Right Coy S Sector of X2 Sector
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
31st: Hostile artillery more active – 120 rounds being fired into Foncquevillers between 9 and 10pm. 6th and 8th Battalions take over the front line.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
30th: Enemy fired about fifty light ™ bombs into our right Company Sector.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
29th: Quite day
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
Derbyshire Territorials in the Great War 