Pte. John Broadbent was reported by Cpl. Harold Cecil Bertram Knivett (see below) as “absent from roll call parade at 7.15am”; on the orders of Capt. Lewis Ernest Buchanan (see 5th March) he would be confined to barracks for five days. Pte. Broadbent was a 31 year-old labourer from Bradford; he was married with four children.
Pte. Vernon Barker
was reported as “absent from Church Parade”; on the orders of Capt. Robert Harwar Gill (see 4th March) he would
be confined to barracks for three days. Pte. Barker was a 27 year-old textile
worker from Bradford; he was married, with one infant daughter (born June 1914)
and had enlisted on 26th September 1914.
Harold Cecil Bertram
Knivett was a 20 year-old railway signalman, originally from Norfolk, but
had been living in Bingley.
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