Wednesday 14th July 1915

In training at Bramshott.

Pte. George Frederick Barkham (see 17^th June) was reported by Cpl. William Digby Stockdale (see 25th April) for ‘not complying with an order’; on the orders of Capt. Robert Harwar Gill (see 9^th July) he would be confined to barracks for seven days.

Pte. Joseph Sweeney (see 12^th October 1914) was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of ‘chronic rheumatism’. A report before an Army Medical Board had stated that he had ‘been in Doncaster Infirmary for three months in 1912 with rheumatism, mostly in his legs. After discharge from hospital he was off work very frequently. After enlisting in September 1914 he had the pains but did not report sick – he used a linament. He reported sick in late May 1915 and has been doing light duty since then’. The Board found that the rheumatism was due to ‘getting legs wet while following his trade’ (he was a slater) and that ‘the pains in his legs mean he is unable to march’. They declared that his condition was not due to his military service and that, therefore, he was not entitled to an Army pension..