10.1.1916 ISBERGUES: Regimental Transport entrained at BERGUETTE STATION.
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On this day 10th January 1916
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On this day 9th January 1916
9.1.1916 MARSEILLES: Battn less transport detrained at 8 am and marches into SANTI CAMP.
9.1.1916 MARSEILLES: Capt E.B. Johnson rejoined for duty with Battn from Base.
London Gazette of 6.1.1916:
- Capt A.J. Hopkins to be Temoporary Major d/- Oct 23rd.
- Lieut H.H. Jackson to be Temporary Captain d/- Oct 23rd.
London Gazette of 7.1.1916:
- Capt E.H. Heathcote to be Temporary Major d’- Sept 3rd.
- Lieut F.B. Robinson to be Temporary Captain d/- Sept 3rd.
- Lieut J Tolson to be Temporary Captain d/- Sept 3rd.
To be Temporary Lieutenants:-
- 2/Lt C.A. Brown
- 2/Lt A.B. Wallis
- 2/Lt G.F. Gardner
- 2/Lt H.W. Higham
- 2;Lt. C.E.V. Cree
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On this day 8th January 1916
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On this day 7th January 1916
7.1.1916: 2/Lt WH Holderness granted 3 weeks sick leave to England.
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On this day 6th January 1916
6.1.1916 ISEBEGUES: Battn less Regimental Transport entrained 10.41 pm at BERGUETTE STATION.
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We entrained early in January, and our accommodation for that journey through France was the acme of comfortable travel (in reverse) forty of us packed into covered vans, the journey took two and a half days, you could not get a pillow, and if any man required toilet when the train was on the move, he somehow proceeded to the sliding door, and there you have nature in the raw.
On our journey we stopped the train for about an hour every six or seven hours, for a stretch and refreshments, which I can assure you was a very welcome break. It was very beautiful scenery, and all along the track south of Lyons the plate layers working on the lines were working in trousers only, the weather was warm and sunny, and such a difference to the weather in Northern France, in fact the trenches although in the same Country seemed a long way off now.
[2305 Pte Frank Longson]
On this day 5th January 1916
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723 Pte Francis Bernard Lang
Francis Bernard Lang a 30 year old coal miner from Staveley was transferred to England on this day as “Time Expired”. Francis has originally enlisted into the 6th Battalion in June 1908 and served with “A” Company.
On this day 4th January 1916
4.1.1916 PROMOTIONS: CQM Sergt JE BARKER & Cpl FWA STUBBS to be 2nd Lieuts dated 18.12.15.
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Frederick William Arthur Stubbs
John Edwin Barker
On this day 3rd January 1916
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On this day 2nd January 1916
2.1.1916 ISBERGUES: Notification received that Lt.-Col. G.D. Goodman, Capt V.O. Robinson, Regtl Sergt Maj. H.H. Jackman, Pte J Hamer had been mentioned in Sir John French’s Dispatches.
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On this day 1st January 1916
1.1.1916 ISBERGUES: Observed as a holiday throughout the Brigade.
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Derbyshire Territorials in the Great War 