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Sunday 19 April 2015

Tuesday 20th April 1915

10DWR remained in training in Folkestone.

Ptes. John Broadbent (see 21st March) and Charles Marsden (see below) were both reported as “absent off pass from 11.55pm”; both would report back at 11.55pm on 22nd April and would be ordered to be confined to barracks for six days and to forfeit two days’ pay.
Charles Marsden, aged 19 and working as an ‘improver’, had enlisted in Leeds on 7th September 1914 and had been posted to 10DWR.

Pte. Robert William Buckingham (see 11th September 1914) was transferred to 3DWR at North Shields. However, he would be reported as ‘absent from tattoo until reporting himself at 5pm on 21st April’; he would be ordered to be deprived of seven days’ pay.




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