11.4.18: ST EMILE SECTOR: Relieved by 58th Canadians (3rd Canadian Division) moved back to billets at PETIT SAINS.
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
11/4/18: Hostile artillery very active on whole SECTION throughout the day. 139th Infantry Brigade was relieved by 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade night of 11/12th and proceeded to SAINS-EN-GOHELLE area.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
3.6.1917 LIEVIN SECTOR: 2/Lt LN JOHNSON MC killed in action whilst on working party (M.30.C.9.5).
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
2nd Lieut. LN Johnson’s death occurred on the 3rd June while in charge of a working party in the Bois de Raiumont, when an advanced trench was being dug for the assembly position of the 138th Infantry Brigade, who attacked from there a few days later.
Johnson was one of the Battalion’s most popular officers……and his grave is in the little cemetery between Fosse 10 and Sains-en-Gohelle, where rest the bodies of a good many of the Battalion’s Rank and file.
1/6th Battalion Regimantal History
Alban Offord from Retford died aged 21
The men were buried in either Fosse No.10 Communal Cemetery Extension in Sains-en-Gohelle, which was the site of the North Midland Field Ambulance, or in Noeux-Les-Mines Communal Cemetery by the 7th Casualty Clearing Station.
30.4.1917 ANGES: Battalion relieved by 6th South Staffords and proceeded into huts and billets at SAINS EN GOHELLE (Divisional Reserve).
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
The son of John and Harriett Town of Woodville. Husband of Adelaide Town of 10 Jackson Terrace, Simkin St in Nottingham.
William was sent to Ireland and in December 1916 he was drafted into the Sherwood Foresters 1/6th Battalion, C Company and sent to France on 4th January 1917. He was seriously wounded in the legs, arms and jaw on the 23rd April 1917 at Fosse 3 de Leivin and died on the 30th April 1917. My father was born 6 weeks later on the 6th June 1917.
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Derbyshire Territorials in the Great War 