The Brigade’s programme of training now began in earnest,
with platoon, company and battalion training and machine gun and bombing
classes.
Cpl. Arthur
Edward Hunt (see 5th May) was admitted via 70th
Field Ambulance to 4th Stationary Hospital in Arques for
investigation into his ‘defective vision’; he would be discharged to duty the
following day.
The weekly edition of the Craven Herald carried news of the death of L.Cpl. Noel Bennett (see 21st November), which had occurred a week earlier:
SEDBERGH
WAR ITEMS - Much sympathy is being expressed in the Sedbergh
district with Mr. W.E. Bennett, stationmaster at Sedbergh, and Mrs. Bennett, in
the great bereavement they have sustained by the death of their only son, Lance
Corporal Noel Bennett, of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, which occurred on
the 19th inst. The melancholy intelligence reached them on Wednesday morning in
a letter from Corporal H.L. Mason, stating that the unfortunate young soldier
had been killed on the 19th inst. when he had gone out of his trench to fetch
in a wounded man. He was shot through the head by a German sniper and died
instantaneously. He was 19 years of age.
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