The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914-1919 | Page 4

13th Farm and Essarts. (March 4th, heavy counter-attack against C Company.)
" 17th Moved back to Souastre.
" 20th-- Marched via Bayencourt, Courcelles-au-Bois and " 24th Contay to Bertangles.
" 25th Moved by 'bus through Amiens to Revelles.
" 28th Entrained at Bacouel.
" 29th Detrained at Berguette and marched to Westrehem for training.
April 13th-- " 14th Marched via Vendin-lez-B��thune to Houchin.
" 18th Moved up to Support billets in Li��vin.
" 19th-- " 22nd Skirmishing in Cit�� de Riaumont.
" 23rd Attack on Hill 65 by C Company.
" 24th-- Held sectors in front of Li��vin and Loos, with June 30th intervals in Support in Li��vin and in Reserve at Marqueffles Farm and Noeux-les-Mines.
July 1st In Brigade Reserve for attack by 46th Division West of Lens.
July 4th On relief by Canadians marched to Bully Grenay and by 'bus to Chelers for training.
" 23rd Marched to Verquin.
" 24th-- In line in St. Elie sector and in Support at Aug. 15th Philosophe.
" 16th-- " 25th Training in Verquin area.
" 26th-- In line in Cambrin sector and in Support at Sept. 12th Annequin.
" 13th-- " 19th In Divisional Reserve at Fouqui��res.
" 20th Marched to Mazingarbe huts.
" 21st-- In line in Hill 70 sector, in Support in trenches Nov. 14th North of Loos, and in Reserve at Mazingarbe.
" 15th-- In line in St. Elie sector, in Support at Philosophe, 1918. and in Reserve at Verquin. (Jan. 2nd, Raid Jan. 20th on front held by D Company.)
" 21st Marched from Verquin to Burbure.
" 22nd-- Training at Burbure. Large detachment at Mazingarbe Feb. 8th digging reserve trenches near Vermelles.
" 9th Marched from Burbure to Laires and Livossart.
" 13th Moved to Enquin-les-Mines for training.
March 5th-- " 6th Marched to Westrehem and by 'bus to B��thune.
" 14th-- Held Annequin Fosse "Locality," in view of " 19th heavy attacks expected.
" 20th-- In line in Cambrin sector. (March 22nd, Heavy " 23rd bombardment and raid on A Company.)
" 24th-- " 26th In Support at Beuvry.
" 27th-- In line in St. Emile sector, and in Support in April 10th St. Pierre.
" 11th On relief by Canadians, moved back to Vaudricourt.
" 18th Moved to reserve trenches in front of Sailly-Labourse. Unsuccessful attack by enemy near Givenchy.
" 20th Returned to Vaudricourt.
" 23rd Marched to B��thune.
" 24th-- In line in Gorre and Essars sectors, and in Reserve Aug. 17th at Fouqui��res, Vaudricourt Park and Verquin.
" 18th Occupied Le Touret after driving out enemy rear-guard.
" 19th-- In billets at Verquin, Vaudricourt Park, " 31st Fouqui��res, Essars and Gorre.
Sept. 1st Took over front line near Richebourg St. Vaast.
" 2nd-- " 3rd Continued to drive back enemy rearguards.
" 4th Attacked and occupied old British Line in front of Richebourg l'Avou��.
" 5th-- " 7th Moved back via Beuvry to Auchel for training.
" 11th-- By train from Calonne Ricouart via Amiens to " 12th Corbie and marched to La Houssoye for training.
" 18th Marched to Bonnay and by 'bus to Poeuilly.
" 20th-- " 25th In line about Pontru and Pontruet.
" 26th Moved back to bivouacs near Vendelles.
" 29th Battle of Bellenglise.
" 30th-- Oct. 2nd In dug-outs near Lehaucourt and Magny-la-Fosse.
" 3rd Battle of Ramicourt.
" 5th-- " 7th In line at Sequehart.
" 8th Resting at Lehaucourt.
" 9th-- Moved via Levergies and Mericourt to Jonnecourt " 12th Farm, near Bohain.
" 17th Battle of Regnicourt.--The Last Fight.
" 18th Moved back to Fresnoy-le-Grand for training.
" 30th Marched to Bohain.
Nov. 3rd-- " 4th Marched via Escaufort to Catillon.
" 5th Crossed Sambre-Oise Canal and advanced to Mezi��res.
" 6th Occupied Prisches and Cartignies.
" 7th-- " 9th At Cartignies.
" 10th Marched from Cartignies to Boulogne-sur-Helpe.
" 11th Armistice.
" 14th Marched to Landrecies.
" 15th-- 1919 Clearing battlefield in Landrecies area. Jan 2nd Demobilisation begun.
" 3rd Marched from Landrecies to Prisches and continued clearing battlefield.
Feb. 19th-- Marched via Bazuel to Bethencourt, near Candry, " 20th for completion of Demobilisation.
June 23rd Return of Cadre and Colours to Headquarters at Newark.
CHAPTER I
ENGLAND
August 4th, 1914. February 25th, 1915.
When the 8th Sherwood Foresters concentrated at Hunmanby, at the end of July, 1914, for their usual annual training, the International horizon was clouded with the diplomatic conversations which had followed the murder of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria by Servians at Sarajevo. Many hoped, no doubt, that the experience of the Morocco incident of 1905 and the Agadir incident of 1911, would again be repeated and that once more the clouds of a world war would be dissipated, but when we reflect upon this period of the world's history it is easy now to see that war with Germany, sooner or later, was inevitable.
The atmosphere was so charged with electricity that it was impossible to settle down to the normal routine of training, and there was little surprise when on August 3rd, Bank Holiday, Germany declared war on France, and when on the following day, August 4th, Great Britain herself, following upon the violation of the neutrality of Belgium, joined forces with