30.7.1916 BELLACOURT: Draft of 59 OR arrived.
War Diary [WO/95/2694]
30th: Quit day. Drafts of 50 other ranks arrived for each Battalion.
Casualties NIL.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
No record in the War Diary [WO/95/2694]
Sept 23rd. Got to wooden huts about 1 a.m. – much better than bivouacs. Hot soup served out & then slept till about 10 a.m. Rifle & bayonet inspn 2 p.m. Band played 2 till about 3-30 p.m. 25 more reinforcements arrived. Nice day, but rain from 8 p.m. till midnight.
[3289 Pte George William Beardsley]
Army Service Record for 3541 Pte Carter recording his arrival to the 1/6th Battalion on the 24th September 1915.
Men sick or wounded included:-
| 1770 | Pte | George Clements | 23.9.15 |
Transferred to England on 23.9.15. Returned to France on 4.3.16 with the 6th Reinforcement. |
| 1736 | Pte | William Stuart | 23.9.15 |
Shell wound in right foreleg and left thigh. Admitted to 46 DRS and 3 Stationary Hospital. Transferred to England on 15.9.15. Returned to France on 3.7.16 with the 13th Reinforcement. |
Derbyshire Territorials in the Great War 