Monday 17th May 1915

Priestley sent a postcard to his family recommending that they should cancel their intention to visit him in Folkestone on the grounds that he had been told that the Battalion would be moving, “next weekend” to Bordon Camp, near Bramshott in Hampshire; “We have received definite orders and the advance parties go this morning”. His expectation was that there stay there would be short and that they “should be ‘out’ (ie abroad) in less than six weeks”.  

L.Cpl. Henry Markham (see 7^th April) began to be paid as Lance Corporal, having held the rank unpaid for the previous six weeks.

Sgt. Robert William John Morris (see 9^th May) was reported by Cpl. King and RSM Broadley as having been ‘absent from instructional parade at 7am’; he was admonished by Lt. Col. Bartholomew.