After taking a short rest after arriving at 3am, the
Battalion resumed its march at 9.30am. Five hours later the Battalion finally
arrived, having marched via La Motte, at their new camp one mile north of
Steenbecque, where, despite the winter weather, the Battalion was to be
quartered in tents. The War Diary recorded that, “The troops marched well; only
a few cases of men falling out were reported”.
However, the long march may well
have been what accounted for Tunstill’s Man L.Cpl. George Liddemore being sent back to England. He had been
hospitalised briefly in August 1915 suffering from inflammation of the joints
and now, just a week after surrendering his former rank as Corporal, (see 12th February) was sent
back to the Regimental Depot in England, having been taken ill.
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