30.3.15 (NERF BERQUIN). Band at OUTTERSTEENE to play for Bp of LONDON’s Service. The following Officers were gazetted and the joined the Battalion during March as 2nd Lieutenants.

Gazette 3rd March:-

• Pte 2341 G. S. Rivington (Gordon Sangster Rivington).
• Pte A. H. Goodhall (Alec Harrison Goodhall).
• Pte T. L. Darbyshire from 18th Alberta Dragoons (Thomas Leslie Darbyshire).

Interestingly, Charles EV Cree and Richard Evans are not mentioned in the War Dairy even though their Commissions are recorded in the London Gazette. Its most likely that they were initially posted to the 2/6th Battalion. Both Cree and Evans arrived in France in July 1915.

Gazette 12th March:-

• Coy Quartermaster Sergt. L. G. DICKENSON dated 13 March (Lewis George Dickinson).
• Surgeon Capt. A. W. Shea promoted Surgeon Major from 5 August 1914 (Arthur Wilson Shea).

War Diary [WO/95/2694].

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30th March 1915. Battalion on route march. Lectures on ambulance and sanitation. In the afternoon did our washing.

[2381 Pte. George Potter Bagshaw]

Mar 30th. Practicing assaulting trenches. Grand day again.

[3289 Pte George William Beardsley]