No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
10th: 174 Brigade Signal Section arrived for 5 days Instruction. German field battery fired 25 rounds into Lincoln Lane and the Calvaire Road during the morning. Fifty rounds from a 77mm also scattered over the left front area in the afternoon.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
9th: 2 Companies of 2/8 London Regiment arrived for instruction and are attached to 8th Sherwood Foresters. A little hostile shelling on Left Sector.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
No record in the 1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
8th: Left Battalion Sector again shelled in the afternoon. 2/5th London Rifle Brigade (who had completed six days instruction in the Brigade area) and 8th Sherwood Foresters take over the front line.
2/5th (City of London) Battalion (London Rifle Brigade)
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
7.2.1917 HALLOY: 160 other ranks joined Battalion from Brigade Depot.
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
7th: Hostile Battery action on our left Battalion front during the afternoon
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
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]
