Sunday 7th
January 1917
The 8th
Battalion has received more reinforcements for this years campaigning. The adjutant
tells me that 98 other ranks arrived today. He commented on them: “Very good
but mostly specialists” meaning men such as machine-ginners, signallers, scouts
and so on. Meanwhile the Commanding officer, Lord Henry Scott inspected the
draft of 174 other ranks which arrived yesterday. Thus the battalion has had
its numbers boosted by more than a company’s worth of men in two days - in
excess of a quarter of its total strength
Source: X550/9/1
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