Sunday 25th June 1916

On trains en route from Berguette to Longueau.

The long train journey from Berguette finally ended with arrival at Longueau at 2.30am. At 4am the Battalion was again on the march, making the ten-mile journey back via Amiens to Fremont (north of Amiens) where they finally occupied their new billets at 9am. Lt. Dick Bolton (see 24^th June) remembered the march as seeming, “unusually long and tedious”. Remarkably, there had again been few men who had failed to complete the arduous march, although one who did fall out was Tunstill’s Man Pte. Richard Butler (see 24^th October 1915). He already had something of a disciplinary record and on this occasion he was found guilty of “falling out without permission on the line of march”; his punishment was to be confined to barracks for three days. Pte. Cecil Rhodes (see 6^th June) was reported by L.Sgt. William McLoughlin (see below) for “disobeying an order; viz. not having his feet washed on a foot inspection”; on the orders of Lt. Adolph Keith Lavarack (see 13^th June) he would be confined to barracks for four days.

William McLoughlin had been an original member of the Battalion; he was 26 years old and from Belfast.

Not surprisingly, the remainder of the day was spent, “having a complete kit inspection and resting”.

2Lt. Eric John Lassen left the Battalion, having been transferred to the Royal Engineers; he had been with 10DWR for less than a month (see 27^th May).

Pte. Charles Davey (see 9^th June), who had been wounded two weeks previously, was evacuated to England and would be admitted to the Royal Infirmary in Sunderland; he was now to be treated, not only from the original injury to his left eye, but also for shellshock.

Pte. Wilson Hepworth (see 24^th August 1915), on attachment to 23^rd Division HQ,  was admitted to hospital (cause unknown); he would be discharged and return to duty after six days.

L.Cpl. Albert Joseph Acarnley (see 8^th June), who would later serve as a commissioned officer with 10DWR, was released from hospital after spending 17 days being treated for myalgia and “PUO” (pyrexia of unknown origin); these were the typical features of what was often known as ‘trench fever’. He re-joined 2^nd Royal Berkshires on active service.