Lieutenant Colonel Maurice Hunter
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10th Trench Duty 23rd to 29th June 1915
Zillebeke 23.6.1915: Took over trenches East of Zillebeke from 4th Yorkshire Regiment & 5th Durham Light Infantry.
Total casualties 1 Officer (Lt Davies) wounded. OR 1 killed 16 wounded.
War Diary [WO/95/2694]
JUNE 23rd we relieved the 5th D.L.I. at Hill 60, in trench No5.
[1415 Cpl. Alfred Afford]
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On this day 21st June 1915
Kemmel 21.6.1915: In huts on OUDERDOM-Vlamertinge Road.
War Diary [WO/95/2694]
On this day 20th June 1915
Kemmel 20.6.1915: Left Kemmel 9 p.m. having at 3 p.m. handed over bivouacs to 1st K.O.Y.L.I. (Major Heathcote).
War Diary [WO/95/2694]
JUNE 20th. We have been temporarily transferred to the 1st Army Corp. and expect moving today. We marched 9 miles to a place called Vlamertinge, and we were billeted in huts.
[1415 Cpl. Alfred Afford]
On this day 19th June 1915
Kemmel 19.6.1915: Battalion addressed by Lieut.-General Charles Fergusson Commanding II Corps, who praised the way the men had worked.
War Diary [WO/95/2694]
JUNE 19th. We have been inspected by Leut.-Gen Sir Charles Fergusson.
[1415 Cpl. Alfred Afford]
General Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet GCB, GCMG, DSO, MVO
(17 January 1865 – 20 February 1951)
He commanded II Corps from January 1915 and then, from May 1916, XVII Corps corps which he led until the end of the War.
On this day 16th June 1015
Kemmel 16.6.15: Relieved by 5th Battalion returned to Kemmel bivouacs.
War Diary [WO/95/2694].
JUNE 16th. We are expecting our relief’s tonight, we were relieved by our 5th Battalion at 11.15.
[1415 Cpl. Alfred Afford]
On this day 15th June 1915
JUNE 15th. At 8.30 p.m. the Huns blew a mine up in J. 3 trench which was occupied by the 8th Battalion and the K.O.Y.L.I. There were 28 in it altogether, we had a nice set to, after our artillery bombarded them and they were sending 160lb trench mortars but did not land them far enough.
[1415 Cpl. Alfred Afford]
On these days 12th and 13th June 1915
No record in the War Diary [WO/95/2694]
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JUNE 13th. I took 3 men and went on a listening patrol in front of our trenches and we got within 40 or 50 yds of them, I was out 1 hour and 35 minutes.
JUNE 14th. I went out at ¼ to 11 on a listening patrol in front of our trenches and came in again at 11.
[1415 Cpl. Alfred Afford]
The wounded men were:-
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1579 |
Pte | Patrick Fox | 12.06.15 | Foreign body in eye and admitted to 1st NMFA. Returned to duty on 15.6.15. |
| 1369 | Pte | Fred Schofield | 12.6.15 | Dental caries and admitted to 1st NMFA. Returned to duty on 15.6.15. |
| 2768 | Pte | Arthur Dovinson | 12.06.15 | Mental deficiency and admitted to 1st NMFA and 13 Stationary Hospital. Transferred to England on 16.615. Returned to France on 10.11.15 with the V Reinforcement. |
| 2296 | Pte | James Hart | 13.06.15 |
Killed by a sniper and buried at Kemmel. |
Page 1 of Arthur Dovinson’s B. 103 Casualty Form – Active Service showing his transfer to England on the 16th June due to ‘mental deficiency’ , which most likely refers to some form of stress due to serving in the trenches. Arthur returned to France with the V Reinforcement in November 1915 and re-joined the 1/6th on 2nd December 1915. He contracted scabies in April 1916 and after 5 days in the North Midland Field Ambulance he was ‘discharged to duty’.
Page 2 of Arthur Dovinson’s B. 103 Casualty Form – Active Service recording that he gun shot wound in the arm on the 1st July 1916 and was again transferred to hospital in England. He returned to France with the 30th Reinforcement in April 1917, but was posted to the 11th Battalion. He suffered a shrapnel wound in the right arm on 30th September 1917 and was transferred to hospital in England in October.
Page 3 of Arthur Dovinson’s B. 103 Casualty Form – Active Service recording his return to France in January 1918 and posting to 2/8th Battalion before his transfer to 2/5th Battalion. He was reported missing on the 21st March 1918 during the German spring offensive.
9th Trench Duty 12th – 16th June 1915
Kemmel 12.6.15: Returned to trenches for 4 days – 6 KOYLI (Major Rigg) attached for instruction. On the 15th the enemy blew up J3 right and having bombarded the line – chief casualties sustained by 8th Battalion and KOYLI. Killed 2 wounded 4 OR.
War Diary [WO/95/2694]
On JUNE 12th we relieved our 5th Battalion, and S.L.I. in K 3 trench. We are having some of the K.O.Y.L.I. with us. K 3 is a support trench.
[1415 Cpl. Alfred Afford]
The two men killed were:-
2296 James Hart a shirt sorter from Chapel who was shot through the top of the head by a sniper.
241 William (Jack) Finney from Matlock Bath killed during stand to.
Both men are buried next to each other in Kemmel Château Military Cemetery and were the last men of the 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters to be buried in the Kemmel sector.
On this day 10th June 1915
No record in the War Diary [WO/95/2694].
One man wounded:-
| 2971 | Pte | John Satterfit | 10.06.15 | GW wound both thighs and admitted to 1st NMFA. Re-joined Battalion on 13.6.15. |
Derbyshire Territorials in the Great War 