Training

  • 2nd to 5th July
    Training

    • Saluting
    • Marching
    • Extended order signals
    • Platoon attack
    • Use of German machine guns
    • Lewis Guns
    • Grenadiers
    • Battalion attack (& demo for officers from Salonika)
  • 6th to 26th July
    Moved to Berneville
    Cleaning equipment and new quarters
    Inoculations
    Training

      • Saluting
      • Bayonet fighting
      • Marching
      • Ranges at Simencourt
      • Battalion attacks
      • Grenade practice
      • Musketry
      • Brigade Tactical Scheme attack
      • Rapid loading (with and without box respirators)

    Parades cancelled due to inoculations
    Brigade aquatic sports
    Bathing

  • 25th July
    Letter from Cpl A.W. Cloete-Smith


    Major D. Hunt was popular. No matter when and in the most unlikely places, he would come out with “Ha! Ha! Get your hair cut”. His way of getting new drafts was in this fashion :-
    “How many men, Sergeant-Major?”
    “Sixty men, Sir!”
    “Ha! Ha! One shell and you’ll all be dead. Ha! Ha! Get your hair cut.”

  • 27th July
    Moved to Bertincourt via Arras, Achiecourt-Le-Grand, Bapaume, Ytres
    Left billets in Berneville very clean