Monday 5th April 1915

The Battalion received ‘new equipment’, as referred to in the letter by CQMS Harry Briley (see 3^rd April) and also, subsequently (see 10^th April) in a letter by Priestley, “We have got a lot of new equipment, so we are getting nearer and nearer”. The exact nature of the new equipment, however, has not been established.

Pte. Fred Hird was reported by Sgts. Arthur Manks (see 17^th December 1914) and Alfred Lodge (see 17^th September 1914) as ‘absent off pass from 11.55pm’; he would return at 8.45pm on 8^th April and would be ordered to forfeit four days’ pay and to be confined to barracks for three days. Fred Hird had enlisted in Bradford on 11^th Sptember 1914; he was 32 years old, married with four children, and had been working as a labourer.

2Lt. Robert Stewart Skinner Ingram (see 2^nd April) returned to Folkestone following a four day leave.