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During the 1st week in May

The following men were taken ill and/or returned to England Time Expired

Taken ill:-

  • 1588 Pte Walter Wragg a cotton operator from Little Hucklow and a Pre-War Territorial who served in “D” Company. Admitted to 1st North Midland Field Ambulance with scabies.1588 Wragg
  • 1012 Pte Edward Nightingale a coal miner from Eckington and Pre-War Territorial who served in “F” Company. Admitted to 1st North Midland Field Ambulance with scabies.
  • 2609 Pte Arthur Collier a labourer from Whaley Bridge who enlisted in October 1914. Admitted to 1st North Midland Field Ambulance with scabies.2609 collier
  • 1804 Pte Harry Bagshaw a stonemason from Matlock and a Pre-War Territorial who served with “E” Company. Admitted to 1st North Midland Field Ambulance with scabies.1804 Samuel Bagshaw1804 Bagshaw
  • 4101 Pte Alfred Allen from Old Whittington who enlisted in March 1915 and arrived in France with the 6th Reinforcement in March 1916. Admitted to 1st North Midland Field Ambulance, 30th Casualty Clearing Station and 22nd General Hospital with bronchial pneumonia. Transferred to England and discharged October 1916.4101 Allen

Time Expired:-

  • 1317 Pte William Haywood a miner from  Bolsover and Pre-War Territorial in “F” Company. Returned to England on the “SS Lydia” pending discharge due to Termination of Engagement.1317 Haywood
  • 1418 Charles Vernon Lee a cabinet maker from Chesterfield and Pre-War Territorial in “A” Company. Retuned to England pending discharge due to Termination of Engagement.1418 lee
  • 1409 Pte George Smart a miner from Clay Cross and Pre-War Territorial in “G” Company. Retuned to England pending discharge due to Termination of Engagement.1409 Smart
  • 1404 Pte John Davenport a coal miner from Bolsover and Pre-War Territorial in “F” Company. Retuned to England on “SS Copenhagen” pending discharge due to Termination of Engagement.1404 Davenport

On this day 8th April 1916

8.4.1916 ACQ: Lt/QM W.N. BROOMHEAD to Hosptial sick. 2/Lt G.W. KNOWLES invalided to England.

War Diary [WO/95/2694]Broomhead 1916 to England


Division Trench Mortar Batteries bombarded the enemy’s trenches near BIRKIN CRATER, with what appeared to be good results.

Weather good.

A Company of the 8th Battalion moved up to dig outs in the CHEMIN DE PYLONES for work there.

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


 Wounded and sick

1835 Pte James Shepherd, a coal miner from Stonegravels and a Pre-War Territorial in “A” Company, suffered from ‘inflamed connective tissue’ in the feet.

1835 Shepherd ICT

4101 Pte Alfred Allen from Chesterfield suffered from bronchitis and was transferred to England.1963 Allen 4101 Allen

374 Pte Albert Heath, a photographer from Clay Cross and a Derbyshire Volunteer (1904) and Pre-War Territorial (1908) in “G” Company returned to England and was discharged as Time Expired.