The Spring weather continued and the Battalion remained in
billets, preparing for the forthcoming move.
In a letter home to his wife Brig Genl. Lambert (see 1st
March) asked her to make arrangements to send a photograph to Lt. William Andrew Leo Kerridge (see 4th January), who had
been back in England since being gassed in July 1916. “Did I ever ask you to
send one of the photographs of our group taken after Contalmaison (with the
trophies) to a Lt. Kerridge Esq., The Marine Boarding House, Ventnor, Isle of
Wight? He wrote to ask for one and I told him I would have one sent. There are
still some in a Kodak envelope in the top small drawer of my chest of drawers I
think. He was my Brigade Bomb Officer but was gassed and will not be fit again
for a long time. As a matter of fact he had some gastric complaint which has
troubled him most”.
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The photograph to be sent to Lt. Kerridge shows him standing second from right, with Brig. Genl. Lambert seated centre
Image by kind permission of Juliet Lambert
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(I am greatly indebted
to Juliet Lambert for her generosity in allowing me access to Brig. Genl.
Lambert’s diary and letters).
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