12.12.1915 ROBECQ: Draft of 52 Other Ranks arrived from Base.

War Diary [WO/95/2694]

 12th December Draft of Reinforcements

The 4th Reinforcement arrived in France on the 9th November 1915 and many of these men joined the 1/6th Battalion ‘in the field’ on 12th December (see below).

This reinforcement included the following men:-

2014 Sergt Ernest Hallam a labourer from Chapel-en-le-Frith who was a Pre-War Territorial.

4105 Pte Thomas Vero a collier from Brampton who enlisted in March 1915.

4073 William Openshaw from Chesterfield who enlisted in March 1915.

3761 Lawrence George Tuckley a miner from Danesmoor who enlisted in January 1915.