Lieutenant John Dudley Barker Symonds & 96 men joined from England on the 29th June 1915.

These men who were originally from the (6th) Reserve Battalion had been left at Braintree.

The names of 50 men from this 1st Reinforcement can be positively identified:-

• 21 Alfred Taylor
• 397 Peter Muir
• 1545 William Winterbottom
• 1689 Frank Morgan
• 1696 George Rogers
• 1697 Willie Hodkin
• 1835 John Sheppard
• 2092 Reginald Smith
• 2103 Thomas Postlethwaite
• 2158 William Gough
• 2213 George Markham
• 2437 Cyril Flint
• 2454 Harry Lomas
• 2506 George Waring
• 2548 Tom Redfern
• 2582 Morris Burbridge
• 2588 William Slack
• 2608 Leonard Pott
• 2630 John Tootal
• 2688 George Franklin
• 2698 George Kimberley
• 2806 Fred Corless
• 2859 Harold Buxton
• 2895 Walter Wilkinson
• 2941 Robert Burns
• 3011 William Hayes
• 3020 William Fry
• 3075 George Toplis
• 3082 John Whaley
• 3096 George Statham
• 3106 Edwin Baker
• 3117 Horace Lowe
• 3132 Alfred Hirons
• 3140 George Taylor
• 3162 James Davies
• 3224 George Lomas
• 3274 Harry Allen
• 3298 George Barringer
• 3364 William Hill
• 3367 Walter Watson
• 3368 Henry Cutts
• 3370 John Hook
• 3388 Fred Johnson
• 3420 Joseph Cockayne
• 3422 Alfred Gregory
• 3446 Percy kellitt
• 3531 William Hill
• 3565 Albert Beresford