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On this day 3rd April 1916

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3.4.1916 TRENCHES: Bn relieved by 5th Bn Sherwood Foresters & moved into Huts & Billets at ACQ.

Casualties during tour:-

Killed – 2 Other Ranks

  • 2448 Pte Hilary Carlin
  • 3548 Pte Albert Housley3548 Housley copy

Wounded – 2/Lt F.W.A. STUBBS and 2/Lt J.E. Barker – slightly at Duty. 4 Other Ranks.

  • 2608 Pte Leonard Pott 
  • 2368 Pte Fred Nichols
  • 3294 Pte Fred Webster
  • 217 Sergt. Frederick Arthur Johnson
  • 1637 Pte Thomas Wheatcroft

War Diary [WO/95/2694]

Quite day – A German aeroplane was brought down in our lines near the QUARRIES – both Germans were killed.1916 German Plane Crash

The 5th Battalion relieved the 6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters in the LEFT SECTOR Trenches, the latter going into Divisional Reserve in ACQ.

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

On this day 30th March 1916

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No record in the War Diary [WO/95/2694]

A very quite day – the trenches are beginning to dry up a little, but are still very wet and full of mud.

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

 2448 Pte Hilary Carlin, a miner from Blackwell was killed in action.2448 Carlin2448 Carlin effects

Time Expired

1379 Pte Arthur Wood, a coal miner from Barlborough and a Pre-War Territorial who served with “F” Company.1379 Wood

1368 Pte Morris Chadwick, a labourer from Little Mayfield and a Pre-War Territorial who served with “H” Company.1368 Chadwick

217 Sergeant Frederick Arthur Johnson, from Ashbourne and a Derbyshire Volunteer (1893) and Pre-War Territorial (1908) who served with “C” Company. 217 JohnsonSS Archangel

All three men returned to England on the “SS Archangel”, a 2,448-ton passenger ship built by J. Brown & Co., Ltd., Clydebank, Glasgow in 1910.

1133 Cpl Arthur Willis, a mill hand from Litton Mill and a Pre-War Territorial who served with “D” Company.1133 Willis

Arthur Willis returned to England on the SS Copenhagen.