7.12.1915 ROBECQ: GOC Division inspects the Battalion.

Christmas gifts from the people of Nottingham distributed to the Officers and men of the Battalion.

Draft of 53 other ranks arrived from No 9 Entrenching Battalion.

War Diary [WO/95/2694]

 7th December Draft of Reinforcements

Three of the men who joined the Battalion on this day were:-

• 4060 Pte George Abbott a miner from Whittington Moor who enlisted in March 1915 and arrived in France with the 4th Reinforcement on the 28th October 1915.
• 3683 Pte John Andrews a platelayer from New Whittington who enlisted in January 1915 and arrived in France with the 4th Reinforcement on the 28th October 1915.
• 4115 Pte Stephen Steeples a collier from Danesmoor who enlisted in March 1915 and arrived in France with the V Reinforcement on the 27th November1915.
  

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  On this day 3486 Pte Joseph Wilson from Bakewell returned to England for reasons unknown.