Wednesday 24th February 1915

23^rd Division continued its march towards Folkestone, covering 13 miles from Guildford to Dorking (24 miles covered in two days).

The recommendations that Pte. Robert Newhouse (see 10^th February) and Pte. William Barker should be discharged on medical grounds (see 19^th February) were endorsed by the administrative staff of 23^rd Division.

General Sir Archibald Hunter, GOC Aldershot Training Centre, wrote to the War Office, requesting that they confirm the appointment of Daniel William Paris Foster as Temporary Quartermaster, 10^th Battalion, West Riding Regiment; this was a post which he had held since September 1914 (see 18^th September).

At home in Rastrick, Sarah Elizabeth Lever, wife of Pte. John Lever, gave birth to the couple’s third child; the boy would be named Fred. John Lever had enlisted aged 28 and working as a cotton twiner.