Training continued.
A/CSM Albert
Blackburn (see 13th
September) was appointed Warrant Officer Class II and Company Sergeant
Major, B Company.
Pte. Albert Reynolds
(see 23rd July) was
promoted Corporal.
A/Cpl. Alfred
Bradbury (see 27th August)
was confirmed in his rank.
A/Cpl. Martin Jackson
(see 31st August) relinquished
his acting rank and reverted to Lance Corporal.
Capt. Dick Bolton
MC (see 9th September)
departed on thirty days’ leave to England.
Capt. Dick Bolton MC
Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton
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Ptes. John Blackburn
(see 20th September), Arthur Clarke (see 13th May 1917) and Edwin Wright (see 4th
April) departed on two weeks’ leave to England.
Ptes. Nathaniel
Bather (see 1st
September), Reginald Dayson
(see 20th August) and Arthur Walton (see 11th September) re-joined the Battalion from the
Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia.
Pte. Fred Rawnsley
(see 3rd September), who
was suffering from “mental illness, not yet diagnosed” was evacuated to
England; once in England he would be committed to the Scalebor Park Asylum,
Burley-in-Wharfedale.
L.Cpl. Harry Bailey
(25248) (see 13th September)
and Ptes. William Atkinson (25980) (see 3rd September), Thomas Henry Cox (25806) (see 31st July), William Harper (25972) (see 18th September), Joseph Livesey (see 4th March), Joseph
McDermott (see 22nd April),
Richard Metcalfe (see 20th August) and James Stott (see 10th July) re-joined the Battalion from the Base
Depot at Arquata Scrivia.
L.Cpl. Victor Lawson
Smith joined the Battalion; he was 22 years old and from Mirfield. He had joined
5th (Reserve) Battalion in October 1914 and had served in France
with 1st/5th DWR from April 1915. He had been wounded in
August 1915 but had remained in France and had re-joined his Battalion after
three months. He had then been wounded for a second time in September 1916 and invalided
back to England. In October 1916 he had been transferred to the Army Reserve
Class W to resume his civil employment, but had then been recalled in April
1918. He had been posted back to France on 30th August and from
there to Italy.
Pte. Arthur Brook
joined the Battalion; he was a 22 year-old spinner from Gomersall. He had
attested in March 1916and had served in France with 2nd/7th
DWR between February 1917 and April 1918, when he had suffered wounds to his
right arm and had been evacuated to England. He had then served with 6DWR until
being posted back to France on 30th August and from there to Italy.
Pte. Ramsden Pyrah
joined the Battalion; he was 25 years old and from Bradford. He had originally
attested in December 1915 and had been called up in February, being promoted
Lance Corporal and Corporal whilst serving in France with 12DWR, which was a
labour battalion. In May 1917 12DWR had been re-designated as 24th
Labour Company, Labour Corps. Cpl. Pyrah had then been transferred to 10DWR in
June 1918 after recovering from a period in hospital in Etaples. He had arrived
in Italy on 3rd July, since when he had been at the Base Depot at
Arquata Scrivia.
Pte. Kingsley James
Reeve also joined the Battalion; he was 25 years old and from Lowestoft. He
had originally been called up to the Suffolk Regiment but had been transferred
to the West Ridings and had served in France with 9DWR between September 1917
and February 1918. He had then been evacuated to England suffering from ‘trench
fever’. He had been posted back to France on 30th August 1918 and
then posted to 10DWR.
Pte. Charles Sidney
Taylor also joined the Battalion; he was a 24 year-old dyers’ labourer from
Bradford. He had served in France with 1st/5th DWR from
June 1916 and had been slightly wounded, but remained at duty, in February
1917. He had been evacuated to England in October 1917 suffering from a severe
case of ‘trench foot’, as a result of which he had spent six months in hospital
and had also been treated for influenza in June 1918. He had been posted to Le
Havre, en route to Italy, on 30th August.
Pte. Arthur Lindsay
(see 20th October 1916),
serving in France with 2nd/4th DWR, was wounded in
action, suffering a bullet wound to his left hand; he would be evacuated to
England and admitted to hospital in Halifax. Pte. Herbert Willis Pickles (see 12th
September), who had joined the same Battalion just ten days’ previously,
was also wounded, suffering shrapnel wounds to his left hand; he would be
admitted to hospital in Camiers before being evacuated to England on 2nd
October, travelling onboard the Hospital Ship Duchess Argyll. On arrival in England he would be admitted to
Wharncliffe War Hospital in Sheffield.
Pte. Arthur Lindsay |
L.Cpl. Frank
Mallinson MM (see 2nd
September), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was presented with the
Military Medal awarded to him for his conduct at the Battle of Messines on 7th
June 1917. The presentation was made by the Mayor of Huddersfield, in a
ceremony at Crosland Moor United Methodist Sunday School.
A memorial service was held at Cowling Parish Church,
remembering, among others, Pte. Albert
Christopher Benson (see 27th
September), who had been killed on 11th September. A similar
service was held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Hellifield in memory of 2Lt. Harley Bentham (see 27th September).
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