Monday 20th September 1915

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Front line trenches near Bois Grenier.

The Battalion War Diary reported, “Weather fine & clear. All quiet. Heavy firing heard to the South. Our Artillery continued to register to which the German retaliated on our trenches with Whizz bangs”.

The German artillery fire claimed the life of a third member of Tunstill’s Company. Private William Hartley Emmott (see 5^th May) was killed ‘by the bursting of a shrapnel shell’. Like Ptes. Arthur Hargreaves and Raymond Tilbrook (see 16^th September), William Emmott was initially buried, ‘amidst the sound of the guns’ in the churchyard at Bois Grenier and, again like them, his remains were subsequently re-interred at Brewery Orchard Cemetery, Bois Grenier (grave reference III. C. 8).