Rest and training continued.
During this period the weather remained dry, bright and
warm. The Battalion was reinforced by a draft of 154 new men who arrived. The
Brigade War Diary noted the new arrivals as being, “of a fair standard”; this
was in contrast to recent reinforcements for 9th Yorkshires who had
been disparagingly reported as, “men of very inferior physique from a Bantam
Battalion”. It was said that, overall, “the Battalion looks much better after
the change”.A number of men from this draft have been identified. Amongst
them was L.Cpl. John Charles Rawnsley;
he was a 19 year-old clerk from Bradford. L.Cpl. Thomas
Edmund Troop had originally served with 2DWR before being transferred (date
unknown) to 10DWR. He was 29 years old and from Rotherham, where he had worked
before the war as a clerk. Ptes. Thomas McDonald (see 21st
March) and Albert Edward White (see 28th May) were re-joining
10DWR having been in England since having been wounded in March. Most of the new
arrivals had attested in December 1915 and January 1916 and had been called up
in March and April for training with 11DWR at Brocton Camp, Staffordshire. They
had been posted to France in June and early July and had originally been
destined for posting to 2DWR but had been re-directed to 10DWR to make up the
recent losses in action. L.Cpl. Herbert Parkin was a 36 year-old
self-employed bootmaker and repairer from Meltham, near Huddersfied; he had
been promoted while in training with 3DWR. He was a married man with three
children. Pte. Ernest Ashness was a 23 year-old labourer from
Huddersfield. Pte. Herbert Greenwood Audsley was a 29 year-old
insurance agent from Ogden, near Halifax. Pte. Arthur Baxter was a 21 year-old clerk from Bradford. Pte. Ernest
Binns was a 19 year-old baker from Halifax. Pte. Frederick Blackwell was a 29 year-old spinner from Yeadon; he was
recently married but had no children. Pte. John
Thomas Brady was a 27 year-old labourer from Bradford. Pte. Daniel
Brennan was a 23 year-old dyers’ labourer from Bradford. Pte. Harry
Briggs (19286) was a 20 year-old motor cleaner from
Oakworth, near Keighley. Pte. Arnold Walker Brook was a 29 year-old
machine stuff presser from Bradford; he had been married on 10th
June, three weeks before being posted to France. Pte. Frank Brooks was a 25 year-old twister from Todmorden; he was
married but had no children. Pte. Spencer
Buckley was a 29 year-old shoemaker from Halifax. Pte. Peter Burns was a 26 year-old married man from Bradford. Pte. Frederick
George Carlton was a 29 yrear-old ‘grease extractor’ from Crosshills, near
Keighley. Pte. George Clegg was a 29
year-old textile worker from Halifax. Pte. Hubert
Crabtree was a 29 year-old cabinet maker from Halifax. Pte. James
Bentley Crosland was a 21 year-old warehouseman from Honley. Pte. Arnold
Crossley was a 31 year-old cabinet maker from Halifax; on 24th
June, just ten days before departing for France, he had married Florence Mary
Sperson. Pte. John Dalby was a 21
year-old joiner from Bradford. Pte. John William Dean was a 22 year-old
grocer’s assistant from Yeadon. Pte. Dyson
Denison was a 23 year-old clerk (working for Messrs. Firth and Marshall,
Bradford) from Heaton, Bradford. Pte. Norman
England was a 24 year-old woollen spinner from Huddersfield. Pte. Harry
Exley was a 38 year-old textile worker from Yeadon. Pte. Sydney Exley
was a 19 year-old dyers’ labourer from Guiseley; while in training he had spent
six weeks in hospital being treated for a hernia. Pte.
John William Ford was a 19 year-old textile worker from Wyke, near Bradford. Pte. James Duncan Foster
was a 28 year-old painter from Bradford. Pte. William Foulds was 23
years old and from Bingley. Pte. Albert Gardiner was a 30 year-old
weaver from Huddersfield. Pte. Percy Geldard was a 21 year-old farm
labourer from Bolton-by-Bowland. Pte. George Alfred Giles was a 22
year-old gardener from Bradford. Pte. Leonard Green was an 18 year-old
grocer from Liversedge. Pte. Richard Greenwood was a 29 year-old textile
worker from Bailiff Bridge, near Brighouse. Pte. James Edward Haley was a 28 year-old weaver from Halifax. Pte. Samuel
Garside Hardy was a 19 year-old painter from Huddersfield. Pte. Fred
Hargreaves (20214) was a 24 year-old carter from Bradford; he was married
with two children. Pte. William Hassall was a 29 year-old shop assistant
from Bradford. Pte. Jessiah Darricott
Hey was a 28 year-old warehouseman (working for Messrs. Empsall and Firth) from
Bradford; he was a well known cross-country runner and had been Assistant
Secretary of Bradford Athletics Club. Pte. Leonard Hurley was a 23
year-old drayman from Cleckheaton. Pte. Clifford
Import was a 19 year-old railway clerk from Bradford; he had worked at the
City Road Goods Depot of the Great Northern Railway. Pte. George Ingle
was a 29 year-old painter from Ilkley; he had been married just three months.
Pte. John Jackson (19555) was a 29 year-old window cleaner from Halifax.
Pte. Ernest Jellicoe was a 23
year-old waggoner from Greenfield, near Oldham. Pte. Arthur Julian was a 21 year-old farm labourer from Oakworth. Pte. Frank
Mallinson was 24 years old and from Huddersfield where he had worked in the
local textile mills. Pte. James Young
McDonald was a 30 year-old dyers’ labourer from Bradford. Pte. Tom
Midgley was a 20 year-old labourer from Bradford. Pte. John Anderson
Mitchell was a 19 year-old butcher from Thackley, near Bradford. Pte. William
Noble (20175) was a 25 year-old dyeworks warehouseman from Rastrick; he was
married with one daughter. Pte.
Herbert Ormanroyd was a 28 year-old confectioner from Bradford; he was
unmarried but had an illegitimate child by Miss Violet Smith. Ormanroyd had, in
November 1915, been convicted of perjury in relation to his paternity of the
child and had been sentenced to serve three months with hard labour but had
been bailed and released. Pte. John William Procter was a 24 year-old
weaver from Oakworth. Pte. Fred Rigg was a 20 year-old upholsterer from
Bradford. Pte. Isaac Robinson was 20 years old and from Keighley, where
he had been working as a labourer in a washing machine factory. Pte. Harry
Simpson was a 29 year-old woolcomber from Thornbury, Bradford. Pte. Harry
Squire was a 20 year-old cabinet maker from Brighouse. Pte. John Stenson was a 19 year-old
bricklayer’s labourer from Birstall. Pte. Donald Stewart was a 20
year-old dyer’s labourer from West Bowling, Bradford. Pte. William Stokes was a 19 year-old woolcomber from Bradford. Pte. Matthew Stone was a 39 year-old iron
moulder from Keighley; he was married with seven children. Having previously
military experience in the territorials, he had been posted to France with 9DWR
in June 1915 but had been in England since having been wounded in March 1916.
Pte. James Stott was a 34 year-old
married man from Rastrick; he had been working as a wood turner and had
previously served in the Territorials before enlisting in August 1914, since
when he had been with 11DWR. Pte. Mark
Henry Sutcliffe was a 23 year-old grocer’s assistant from Bradford. Pte. Stanley
Sykes was a 26 year-old compositor from Huddersfield. Pte. Bertram Stanley Temperton; known as
Bert, he was married, 25 years old and had worked as a school teacher in
Brighouse. Pte. William Henry Thornton
was a 25 year-old railway booking clerk from Honley. Pte. Willie Tordoff was a 20 year-old weaving overlooker from Bradford.
Pte. Charley Wadsworth was a 20 year-old warehouseman from Hebden
Bridge. Pte. Ferrand Wilkinson was a 24 year-old warehouseman from
Bradford; he was married with one daughter. Pte. Frederick William
Wilman was a 19 year-old from Bradford; he had worked as a stablehand for
the Home Yeast Company, Tea Merchants in Bradford. His employers had
recommended him for the “Horse Transport, he having been with us for eighteen
months, we have found him very reliable and trustworthy where horses are
concerned”. Pte. Thomas Irvin Wood was a 24 year-old dyers’ labourer
from Huddersfield; he had married May Atkinson just five weeks prior to being
posted to France.
Also joining with the new draft was Pte. William Currey; he had originally been due to join 11th West Yorks., but was now attached to 10DWR instead. He was a 20 year-old dyers’ labourer from Bradford. He had originally volunteered in June 1915 and had served with 18th West Yorks., initially in Egypt, from December 1915, and then in France from March 1916 until being wounded on 2nd July, as a result of which he had spent time in hospital in Le Havre.
A Medical Board convened at 4th London General
Hospital reported on the condition of Lt. Paul
James Sainsbury, (see 15th
July) who would later serve with 10DWR, and had been wounded on 1st
July. The Board found that, “he was knocked down by a piece of shell and whilst
lying on the ground 3 or 4 large shells burst quite near him; he did not lose
consciousness but he was dazed and light headed for 6 hours. He is suffering
from shell shock. 12 months at the front, he complains of headache, dreams,
startled by noise, lack of power of concentrating his attention. No other
sign.” They found him unfit for general service for 3 months; and unfit for any
service for 8 weeks.
The Times carried an obituary of Capt. Herbert Montagu Soames Carpenter (see 15th July), who had been killed in action on 5th July.
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Capt. Herbert Montagu Soames Carpenter
(image by kind permission of Henry Bolton)
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