Sunday 27th September 1914

The Company remained in training at Frensham.

Cpl. Henry Herbert Calvert was promoted Pioneer Sergeant. He was a 45 year-old assurance agent (working for the Prudential Assurance Company) from Halifax; he had previously served 14 years in the Territorial Army and had re-enlisted on 15^th September and had immediately been appointed Corporal on account of his previous experience. He was married with two children (a third child had died in infancy). Although under age at the time (he was born 6^th February 1898), his son, Sydney Evans Calvert, would join the Royal Engineers in 1915.