Friday 1st October 1915

Billeted in huts near Rue Marle.

The weather remained generally wet and chilly, though nights were clear and frosty.

Battalion HQ was ordered to move to the Bois Grenier Line and Lt. Col. Bartholomew (see 13^th September) took command of the section of the Bois Grenier running roughly from Bois Grenier village itself, north-east in the direction of Chapelle d'Armentieres. This move seems to have been undertaken in anticipation of a possible German attack, as orders were issued for the Companies to be prepared to launch an immediate counter-attack if the front line trenches were assaulted.

Major Buchanan (see 30^th September) returned to Rue Marle, taking command of the two Companies (A and B) which remained there.  

Whilst holding their section of the Bois Grenier Line, C and D Companies lost one man killed and another man was wounded. The man killed was Pte. Allan Hiley; he is buried at Brewery Orchard Cemetery, Bois Grenier. He was a 20 year-old shop assistant from Leeds.

Cpl. Thomas Walsh (see 25^th September) was evacuated to England for further treatment to his wounds. He was initially treated at North Evington War Hospital, Leicester; he would re-join the Company nine months later.  

The weekly edition of The Ilkley Gazette published notice of the death of Pte. William Hartley Emmott (see 20^th September):

One Burley Soldier Killed, Another Missing

Private William Hartley Emmott, of the 10^th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment, has been killed in France by the bursting of a shrapnel shell. Emmott only went out to the front about a month ago. In a letter to his parents at Burley-in-Wharfedale, the chaplain of the regiment writes to say that Emmott was buried the same day by his sorrowing comrades amidst the sound of the guns. Private Emmott’s brother, Edward, who was in the same regiment, was wounded in the early stages of the war, and after a short stay in England he returned to fight at Hill 60, since when he has been reported as missing. Another brother, Tom, is a Lance Corporal in the same regiment and a fourth brother, George, is in the Army Ordnance Corps.