The grave of Captain Frederick Henry Meredith Lewes, Adjutant of 1/5th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment erected by the Germans at Gommecourt, where he was killed on 1st July 1916. Photograph taken in March 1917. Courtesy of Imperial War Museum © IWM (Q 7797).

General Sir William Thwaites outside the 8th Sherwood Foresters Battalion H.Q. The Brasserie, Fonquevillers, March 1917. Showing Strombos horn and shell case gas alarms. Imperial War Museum © IWM (Q 4919).

Men of the 8th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters) fixing fuses in stokes mortar bombs. Fonquevillers, March 1917. Imperial War Museum  © IWM (Q 4918).

Men of the Sherwood Foresters at the entrance to a dug-out in a ruined house at Fonquevillers, April 1917. Imperial War Museum © IWM (Q 1637).

The Signalling Section “out from Gommecourt” in 1917. Indicated with a cross is 4639 Pte Alfred Darnell who enlisted in July 1915 and arrived in France 1916.