The weather remained fine and the Battalion began a training
programme which was to occupy the next five days. This comprised of, “general
training, having good route marches and having physical exercises; Platoon,
Company and Battalion drill, also receiving instruction on the value of care of
Arms, handling of Arms and general interior economy”. This first day was spent
in Brigade level training.
Capt. Adrian
O’Donnell Pereira (see 6th
March), one of the original officers of ‘D’ Company, who had been taken ill
in October 1915, and, following his recovery had been serving with 11th
Battalion in England, re-joined 10DWR. It seems that on re-joining he may have
served with ‘C’ Company as he was pictured along with the other officers of
that Company at some point in the next two weeks.
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| Capt. Adrian O’Donnell Pereira |
The weekly edition of the Craven Herald reported that Pte. James Mason was home on leave, following a period in hospital at
Stoke-on-Trent; he had spent more than three months in hospital, having been
wounded in December (see 14th
January). There is no indication that he ever returned to 10th
Battalion and he seems to have remained in England, possibly serving with 25th
Battalion Durham Light Infantry, which was a works battalion formed in May
1916, and based in Skipton from August 1916.
BOLTON-BY-BOWLAND
Private James Mason of Bolton-by-Bowland, who joined the 10th
Duke of Wellington’s is now home on leave, after being in hospital for several
months at Stoke-on-Trent. Private Mason was the first Boltonian to be wounded
and this happened very soon after he went to the Front.
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