The weather remained fine and the Battalion training
programme continued, with the focus on Company and Platoon level training.
Pte. Thomas Richardson (see 19th March)
was ordered to be confined to barracks for seven days for ‘disobedience to an
NCO’; the exact date of his offence is unknown but he had been reported by Sgt.
Wilfred Hall (see 23rd September 1915) and L.Cpl. John William Parker (13991) (see
below) and the punishment was awarded by Capt. James Christopher Bull MC (see
4th April).
L.Cpl. John William
Parker (13991) was a 24 year-old married man from Haworth; he had been an
original member of the Battalion.
Lt. Dick Bolton (see 4th April) was admitted
to 70th Field Ambulance, suffering from influenza.
John Hitchin of Long Preston, the father of John Henry Hitchin (see 14th March) received news
that his son was being treated, following an operation for acute appendicitis,
at Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank, London. Hitchin had been the
first man to volunteer following Gilbert Tunstill’s appeal. However,
having been commissioned he had found himself in financial difficulties and had
been absent without leave since 29th December 1915 and had been
stripped of his commission in February.
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