The weather remained good and training continued.
Having spent the last week at home on leave (see 12th February), Major Lewis Ernest Buchanan was declared
unfit to return to duty for at least a further three weeks. The immediate cause
of his disability was not stated but given his age (he was forty-eight) it
seems likely that he, like Major Harry
Robert Hildyard (see 17th
February) was simply no longer fit
enough to withstand the rigours of trench warfare. In his absence he would be
temporarily replaced as Second-in-Command of the Battalion by Capt. Robert Harwar Gill (see 16th January), who
would be promoted Temporary Major.
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| Maj. Robert Harwar Gill |
Ex-Tunstill’s Man, Dvr. Arthur
Overend (see 22nd November
1915), now serving with the ASC at Cirencester, again found himself in
trouble, as he had on a number of previous occasions. He was found to have
been, “insolent to an NCO” and was ordered to be confined to barracks for three
days.
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