17.3.1917
6am: Patrols occupied BURG and later whole of HEDGE TRENCH without opposition.
9am: Patrols pushed into ESSARTS.
2pm: Patrols reconnoitred QUESNOY FARM.
4pm: Small enemy detachment firing machine guns from QUESNOY FARM caused 1 platoon of ours to withdraw.
8.30pm: The Battalion occupied and held QUESNOY FARM.
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
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139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
16.3.1917: Wire cutting in front of N of BURG continued.
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
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139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
9.3.1917
12.50am: “B” Company holding KITE COPSE and trenches running SW from corner. BURG strongly held by enemy.
3.50am: MAJOR ASHWELL DSO wounded in KITE COPSE. Major CB JOHNSON assumed Command. LIEUT DS FOX slightly wounded (at duty).
5.40am: KITE COPSE evacuated by us without loss. Identification of 91st R.I.R [91st Reserve Infantry Regiment] obtained.
Cyril Benton Johnson
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
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139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
8.3.1917: Letter “B” and “C” Companies attacked KITE COPSE and the BURG.
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
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139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
Although the area has returned to farm land the position of Arrow Copse has not changed over the last 100 years and evidence of the fighting can still be seen with the recovery of a British water bottle from the area of the BURG (below).
Derbyshire Territorials in the Great War 