Extreme hot weather made training conditions on the musketry
ranges at Longmoor and Whitehill very taxing. In a letter to his family,
Priestley remarked that, “The heat was terrific and on the Sunday and Monday … large
numbers of our men had to be taken to hospital suffering from sunstroke”.
Pte. John Charles
Brison Redfearn (see 21st December 1914) was disciplined for
“making an improper remark to an NCO”, as witnessed by Sgt. Smith and L.Cpl.
Waterhouse. He was ordered to be confined to barracks for three days.
At 11pm Pte. Stephen Grady (see 10th June), who had been absent off pass for the
previous four days, handed himself in the Royal Military Police at Bramshott
Camp. Next day he was ordered to forfeit five days pay and be confined to
barracks for fourteen days.
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