Heavy rain continued for yet another day and conditions were
made worse by strong winds overnight.
Pte. James Arthur
Heap was charged with having been “absent from working party parade and
breaking bounds”; he was ordered to undergo 14 days Field Punishment no.2. Heap
had enlisted on 11th January 1915 and been posted to 10DWR then in
training in England. He had been 30 years old when enlisting, married with
three children and working as a silk dresser.
Administrative staff at Etaples requested confirmation as to whether CSM Harry Dewhirst (see 29th November) was to be sent home as being unfit for further service overseas.
In the week after Christmas four new subalterns reported for
duty with the Battalion. William Neville
Dawson had been in the OTC at Radley College and had been training as a
lawyer when war broke out. He volunteered for service in November 1914 and
joined the ASC as a driver for the next three months, before being commissioned
2Lt. in February 1915. Maurice Odell
Tribe had also been a cadet in the OTC at Radley College before going up to
St John’s College, Oxford, where he had been studying when war broke out. He
had immediately volunteered and had joined 5th London Field Ambulance (RAMC),
with whom he had served until he was commissioned on 25th January 1915. Walter
Douglas Taylor was a former member of the Bridlington Grammar School OTC
and had been commissioned 2Lt. in November 1914. The fourth 2Lt. to arrive was Frank Hubert Caudwell Redington (see 27th November) who had served
with the Battalion during training but whose departure from England had been
delayed (reason unknown).
Pte. Harold Carey was killed whilst serving with 1st/6th
Duke of Wellington’s; he was the older brother of Norman Carey, who had originally volunteered to serve with
Tunstill, but had been rejected on medical grounds (see 17th January). According to letters from his
comrades, Harold was killed by a German shell whilst resting in a dug-out.
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