No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
May 16: No change.
May 17: On the night of the 17th/18th a raid was attempted by the 7th Sherwood Foresters. Operational Order No 115.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
May 16: No change.
May 17: On the night of the 17th/18th a raid was attempted by the 7th Sherwood Foresters. Operational Order No 115.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
15.5.1917 TRENCHES: Military Medal warded for following NCOs & men for gallantry on 23rd April at FOSSE 3 DE LIEVIN:-




1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
May 15: No change. Quiet day.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
May 14: During the night the 7th Sherwood Foresters established advanced posts at N.1.a.55.90. 49.81 60.72. 45.49. These posts were consolidated and held against bombing attacks by the enemy.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
13.5.1917 TRENCHES: Major W SEATON assumed temporary command of Battalion vice Lieut.-Col. CB Johnson on short leave to England.
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
Trenches May 13: On the night of the 13th the 5th Sherwood Foresters relived the 6th SF in the line and the 7th SF relieved the 8th SF in the line.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
3931/241280 Pte James Wheat was killed in action. Son of Mrs Lucy Wheat of 14 Clarence Terrace, Clarence St. in Nottingham. He was previously wounded on 3.10.16 at Bellacourt.
3455/241087 Pte Alfred Sawyer served with “D” Company and was wounded on 13.5.17 at Cite St Pierre
3639 Pte Samuel Brailsford served with “B” Company and was wounded on 14.5.17 at Cite St Pierre
12.5.1917 TRENCHES: Battalion relieved by 5th Sherwood Foresters and moved into Brigade Reserve in dugouts at West end of CITE ST PIERRE.
Casualties:- Lieut. FWA STUBBS 4 other ranks killed and 10 other ranks wounded. The men killed were buried in Maroc British Cemetery.
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]

The 1/6th Battalion buried eight of their men in Maroc British Cemetery between 8th and 28th May 1917.
These five casualties of the 45th Trench Duty are buried next to each each in Row O along with other Sherwood Foresters from the 139th Brigade. Indeed, 34 men of the 139 Infantry Brigade are buried at Maroc.
The remaining two men of the 1/6th Battalion are buried in Row P along with several Germans.
No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
Trenches May 11-13: No change. Hostile artillery and trench mortars daily active on our front. Each night active patrolling was carried out by Battalions in the line who constantly kept touch with the enemy.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
Alfred was the Son of Marshall and Eliza Hensby of Beck Row, Mildenhall in Suffolk.

10.5.1917 TRENCHES: 2nd Lieut FWA STUBBS MC killed in action.
Frederick William Arthur Stubbs aged 26
“2nd Lieut. Stubbs was killed on the 10th May by a shell in the Cite St Pierre………Captain Robinson, who was with him on the fatal occasion, had a very narrow escape, for he had just crossed the road and dropped into the trench on the other side when the shell came. 2nd Lieut. Stubbs, who had moved back a few steps to take cover at a cellar entrance, received almost the full force of the explosion and was killed instantly”
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694] and Battalion History
Trenches May 10: Advanced Bde HQ shelled for 2 1/2 hours with 4.2s & 5.9s. 263 shells were fired of which 43 were “blinds”.
Wire was put out between BLACK WATCH ALLEY and SEAFORTH CRATER. Also a belt 100 yards long & 3 yards wide in front of our main line North of NETLEY.
During the night our machine guns fired on enemy tracks and lines of approach.
Our snipers shot 3 of the enemy in NELSON TRENCH.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]

No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
Trenches May 9: Good deal of trench mortar activity against NOVEL and NETLEY Trenches. Also hostile arial activity – several machines crossing our lines.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
8.5.1917 TRENCHES: Military Medal awarded to following NCOs & men for gallantry on 23rd April at FOSSE 3 DE LIEVIN




1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
Trenches May 8: Enemy fairly quite. MAROC and Level Crossing at GRENAY shelled.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
7725/242515 Pte Thomas Cheetham aged 20 and formerly of the South Nottinghamshire Hussars see here 
260001 James Alfred Goodger had previously served with the 2nd Battalion and was the first man to by issued with the 26**** numbering series
A “Sherwood’s Row” in Plot II of Maroc British Cemetery in Grenay
6.5.1917 Extract from C in C’s List No. 133: Sherwood Foresters :- 2/Lieut. E Kershaw, MC to be Adjutant and to be Temporary Lieutenant whilst so employed vice 2/Lieut (Temp Lieut) GKK MAUGHAN to Regimental Duty 19/4/17.
Edward Kershaw and Gardyne Maughan
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
Who served with “A” Company was wounded on 7th May 1917 at Cite St Pierre. Alfred was discharged in May 1918.