Wednesday 21st June 1916

Billets at Enquin-les-Mines

Training again continued. Orders were received that the Battalion should be ready to move on 24^thJune. 

Pte. Ernest Wilson (11751) (see 13^th July 1915) was ordered to undergo 21 days Field Punishment no.2 (the nature of his offence is unknown).

Pte. Tom Darwin (see 12^th June), who had been absent without leave for four days stood trial by Field General Court Martial on charges of desertion and losing his equipment by neglect. He was found not guilty on the first charge but guilty on the second. The sentence passed was that he should serve one years’ imprisonment, without hard labour.

Cpl. Thomas Walsh (see 25^th November1915), who had been wounded in September 1915 and had been evacuated to England for treatment, re-joined the Battalion.

Thomas Walsh (seated), pictured in 1917, along with fellow senior NCOs, (left to right) Luke Dawson, Charles Edward Parker and 'Benson' (not positively identified)

(Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton)

Charles Edward Parker was, like Walsh, one of Tunstill's original volunteers (see 17th September 1914)

Having been sent back to England the previous day, Pte. Booth Dean Hartley was admitted to Dundee War Hospital, where he was to be treated for heart disease.

At Bradford Children’s Hospital, William Thornton died, aged ten months, from ‘tuberculosis and exhaustion’; he was son of Pte. Joseph Thornton (see 17^th June), who was under treatment Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot, having been severely wounded in May.

A payment of £3 5s. 8d. was authorised, being the amount outstanding in pay and allowances to the late Pte. James Frainey (see 23^rd March), who had been killed in action in March; the payment would go to his father, Michael.