- 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