The Battalion remained at La Rolanderie and provided daily
working parties supporting the Royal Engineers in the Bois Grenier line. There
was little else to report other than there being heavy bombardments apparent in
other parts of the line and considerable German shelling of Armentieres.
Ptes. Joseph Alfred Formby, Patrick Larvin, Peter James Sheehan and Walter Maynard Willis joined the Battalion from 3DWR in England. Joseph Alfred Formby was 18 years old and from Waltham Abbey. Patrick Larvin was 28 years old and from Leeds, where he had worked in a linen mill. Peter James Sheehan was a pre-war regular soldier, having enlisted in the West Ridings in 1910, having previously served in a Territorial Battalion of the Royal Field Artillery; he was 25 years old and originally from Whitechapel, London. Walter Maynard Willis had enlisted in September 1913 and had served in France with 2DWR between November 1914 and February 1915 before being posted back to 3DWR. Before joining the army he had worked as a billiard marker in Bradford and in September 1915 he had married Jeannie Irving with whom he already had an illegitimate daughter, Florence, born in January 1912.
Pte. Edward Anderson
(see 22nd April) departed
on one week leave to England.
Ptes. Joseph Alfred Formby, Patrick Larvin, Peter James Sheehan and Walter Maynard Willis joined the Battalion from 3DWR in England. Joseph Alfred Formby was 18 years old and from Waltham Abbey. Patrick Larvin was 28 years old and from Leeds, where he had worked in a linen mill. Peter James Sheehan was a pre-war regular soldier, having enlisted in the West Ridings in 1910, having previously served in a Territorial Battalion of the Royal Field Artillery; he was 25 years old and originally from Whitechapel, London. Walter Maynard Willis had enlisted in September 1913 and had served in France with 2DWR between November 1914 and February 1915 before being posted back to 3DWR. Before joining the army he had worked as a billiard marker in Bradford and in September 1915 he had married Jeannie Irving with whom he already had an illegitimate daughter, Florence, born in January 1912.
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