Locre 20.4.15. Promotions

• 4508 Coy. Sgt. Major H. Jackman to be Acting Sgt. Major.
• 456 Coy. Q.M. Sergt. H. H. Holland to be Coy Sgt. Maj. ‘A’ Coy.
• 425 Coy. Q.M. Sergt. J. Atherton transfered to ‘A’ Coy.
• 2410 Sergt. T.J. Henshall to be Coy. Q.M. Sergt.  ‘B’ Coy.
• 2377 L/Cpl G.W. Knowles to be Corpl. for good service in trenches.

War Diary [WO/95/2694]

Herbert Henry Jackman served with the 2nd Battalion in the Tirah Campaign of 1897-98 (Awarded Medal and Clasps for Tirah & Punjab); the Boer War of 1899-1902 (QSA and Clasps for Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1902); Joined 1st Battalion at Rustenburg in South Africa on 8th April 1902 as L/Cpl; Joined 6th Battalion in 1908; Arrived in F & F 25.2.15; Later transferred to Labour Corps (403164); Drowned on 16.12.17 with 857th Area Employment Coy of the Labour Corps.

Henry Houlsworth Holland a machinist engineer at Bryan Donkin’s who lived on Lordsmill Street in Chesterfield.

Thomas Jackson Henshall a clerk from Chesterfield.

Geoffrey Walston Knowles.

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APRIL 20th at 7p.m. Our Battalion went out digging a trench to get up to the first line of trenches. This was dug to make it safe for our fatigue parties going up, and landed back at 4.30 the next morning APRIL 21st.

[1415 Cpl. Alfred Afford]

20th April 1915. We rested all day until night when we had to go to the trenches to dig a communication trench from the trenches to the roads, a distance of nearly two miles. This was so if necessary we could walk in the trenches during the day time. We arrived back about 4-30 tired out.

[2381 Pte. George Potter Bagshaw]

Apr 20th. Breakfast in bed about 12 noon, got up about 2-30. Went trench digging near Kemmel at night. Got lost when coming back. Parcel from Luton.

[3289 Pte George William Beardsley]