Sunday 2nd May 1915

Pte. William Baxter (see 1^st January) was reported by Sgt. Irvine Ellis (see 22^nd March 1915) and Sgt. Joseph Laycock (see below) as having been “absent off Church Parade and absent off Company Orderly Room when warned to attend”; on the orders of Maj. Lewis Ernest Buchanan (see 21st March) he would be deprived of two days’ pay.

Sgt. Joseph Laycock was a 39 year-old silk dresser from Huddersfield; he had previously served twelve years in the army from 1893 to 1905, serving in both South Africa and India. He had re-enlisted on 7^th September 1914 and had been posted to 10DWR.

Former members of Tunstill’s Company, Ptes. Walter White and Walter Shackleton (see 29^th April) were among a draft of 280 men who joined 2^nd Battalion West Ridings in reserve near Kruisstraat in the Ypres Salient.