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25th Trench Duty 19th – 27th May 1916

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19.5.1916 FONQUEVILLERS: The Battn relieved the 6th Battn South Staffs Regt in the CENTRE SECTOR trenches, with Battn H.Qrs at FONQUEVILLERS the billets in HUMBERCAMPS being taken over by the relieved Battn.

War Diary [WO/95/2694]ZFonquevillers trenches

May 19: Took over new trenches. Wires all working at 11 pm.

[Lieutenant Josiah Taylor]

19th: Relief of 5th N. Staffs by 8th Nattan Sherwood Foresters in Support completed by 1 pm. Remaining relief went off most satisfactorily, the last Battn to relieve 6th finished by 1.40 A.M. just 2 hours after relief commenced – lovely day’

139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]

1637 Pte Thomas Wheatcroft, a gas work labourer from Matlock Bath and a Pre-War Territorial in G Company suffered an abscess in the right buttock and was admitted to the 1st North Midland Field Ambulance.1637 wheatcroft

On this day 30th April 1916

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Men taken sick during last week of April

1828 Pte Claude Hancock, a labourer from New Mills and a Pre-War Territorial who served with “H” Company was admitted to the North Midland Field Ambulance with scabies.1828 Hancock

1637 Pte Thomas Wheatcroft, a gas works labourer from Matlock Bath and a Pre-War Territorial in “E” Company was admitted to the North Midland Field Ambulance with scabies.1637 wheatcroft

2561 Pte George William Chadwick a plate former electrician from Bakewell who enlisted in October 1914 was admitted to the North Midland Field Ambulance with scabies. 2561 Chadwick

1490 Pte Jeremiah Thompson a miner from New Barlboro and Pre-War Territorial who served in “F” Company was admitted to the North Midland Field Ambulance with inflamed connective tissue (cellulosis) of the right knee. He was treated in the 12th Stationary and 9th General Hospitals before being transferred to England. He returned to France with the 2/6th Battalion in February 1917 and was wounded in December 1917. 1490 Thompson