Monday 21st February 1916

Corps Reserve at Steenbecque

The weather remained good and training continued.

L.Cpl. Thomas Butler (see 19^th September 1915) departed for England on one weeks’ leave.

Pte. William Henry Jordan was posted to France en route to joining 10DWR. He was a 20 year-old labourer from Bradford. He had served as a territorial in the 6^th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment before transferring to 2DWR as a regular soldier in July 1913. He had been posted to France with the Battalion in August 1914 and had been appointed Lance Corporal in March 1915. He had been taken ill in October 1915 (details unknown) and had spent ten days in hospital in Rouen before being evacuated to England on 19^th October and had been admitted to Cheltenham V.A.D. Hospital. Since 31^st December 1915 he had been serving with 3DWR at North Shields.

Pte. George Wallace Fricker (see 13^th January), who had been returned to England five weeks earlier, was posted to 11DWR, a Reserve Battalion, based at Brocton Camp in Staffordshire. He would be promoted Lance Corporal a week later.