Training continued. Having been notified that they would
have as little as six hours’ notice of their next move, all surplus stores, baggage and kit were
despatched to the railway station at Berguette in preparation for the move.
Meanwhile the opportunity was taken for the men to bathe. Pte. Patrick Conley (see 27th
April) was reported by Sgt. Edward
Smith (11769) (see below) as,
“absent off bathing parade”; on the orders of 2Lt. Christopher Snell (see 5th
May) he was to be confined
to barracks for five days.
Edward Smith was
a 34 year-old coal miner; orginally from Staffordshire, he had been living in
Leeds with his wife and their two children.
Brig. Genl. T.S. Lambert, commanding 69th
Brigade, formally confirmed the sentence of the Field General Court Martial
held the previous day in the case of Pte. Tom
Darwin (see 22nd June).
Ptes. Fred Brook, Tom Crowther, Albert Ellis and Harold Schofield Hanson were posted to France and would join 10DWR. Fred Brook was 22 years old and from Huddersfield. Tom Crowther was a 37 year-old iron turner from Lockwood, Huddersfield; he was a widower (his wife, Alice, had died in February 1915) with one daughter. He had enlisted in September 1914 and had served in France with 9DWR from September 1915 until being evacuated to England (cause unknown) in March 1916). Albert Ellis was a 37 year-old mason’s labourer from Sowerby Bridge. Harold Schofield Hanson was a 22 year-old textile worker from Huddersfield.
It was noted that 2Lt. William
Neville Dawson (see 1st
June), who had been reported as being unfit to continue as a platoon
officer, had not yet reported at the War Office, as previously instructed, in
order to resign his commission. It seems that the earlier order had not yet
been acted upon as Dawson had remained with the Battalion.
2Lt. Arthur Poynder
Garratt (see 12th December
1915), serving with 9th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s, was
“accidentally injured whilst wrestling at Amiens”.
Pte. Edwin Everingham
Ison (see 30th May),
was discharged from hospital having been treated for three weeks at a variety
of locations having been taken ill while serving with 1st Battalion,
West Yorkshires.
Edward Everingham Ison, pictured whilst serving with 10DWR
(Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton)
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