Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
The War Diary for today records. LE HAMEL. At 12.15am relief complete. Weather excellent. Trenches more continuous than when we left them. Work involved mainly to wiring of front and reserve lines. Captain D. B. PETCH M.C. returned from G. H. Q. Lewis Gun School. Active patrolling by night on both sides of RUE DE BOIS. Reconnaissance by 2nd Lt F. G. TAYLOR commended by General Officer Commanding. At 11.00pm. Enemy fired number of High Explosive and Gas shells during the night and LE HAMEL and RESERVE LINE east of the village. No damage done except at Battn HQ where 3 cooks and 3 signallers were wounded, one of the latter died.