Monday 8th May 1916

Billets at Pernes

The fine weather of the previous two weeks finally broke and there was heavy rain through much of the day. Some training continued but the day was largely quiet.

Lt. Charles Frederick Wolfe (see 6^th April) joined the Battalion as Transport Officer, taking over that role from Lt. Leonard Hammond (see 5^th May), who joined ‘C’ Company. 

Pte. Harry Hartley, having been admitted, ill, to 70^th Field Ambulance at Bruay the previous day (see 7^th May), was transferred to no.18 Casualty Clearing Station for further treatment. How long he remained in hospital has not been established but he did re-join the Battalion.

George Richard Goodchild was called up from the Army Reserve and posted to 3^rd (Reserve) Battalion West Ridings to begin his training; he would later join 10DWR. He had attested under the Derby Scheme in Halifax on 29^th November 1915, at which time he was living in Bradford and working as a shorthand writer and journalist. He had been born in London in February 1891, the second of four children of George and Amelia Goodchild. By 1911 his father had died and his mother and all four children were living in Bradford.



George Richard Goodchild, with his wife, pictured whilst on leave in England when serving with 10DWR.
(Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton).

Cpl. David Hanton (see 21^st December 1914), who had been attached to Tunstill’s Company whilst they were in training in England in the autumn of 1914, was formally discharged from the Army on account of the wounds which he had suffered in September 1915.

Sgt. David Hanton (front right), pictured, along with other senior NCO's, during Battalion training in 1914.
(Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton)