Sunday 12th September 1915

Billets between Vieux Berquin and Oultersteene.

At 1am orders were received for the Battalion to move forward in preparation for instruction in the trenches, as had already been undertaken by other Battalions of 69^th Brigade (see 11^th September).

At 9am the Battalion departed their billets and marched seven miles east to Erquinghem. On reaching their destination they were met by a Staff Captain from 81^st Brigade who conducted them to the location where they were to bivouac, one and a half miles south of the town. Here a schedule was issued for the programme of instruction which the Battalion was to follow over the next few days, ‘shadowing’ 1^st Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in the trenches.

11^th West Yorkshires and 9^th Yorkshires left the trenches following their period of instruction and returned to their former billets near Vieux Berquin.