Tuesday 20th July 1915: The adjutant of the 2nd Battalion tells us that their team has won the divisional swimming relay race. The teams taking part were the 4th Camerons, Yorkshires, Wiltshires, Royal Scots Fusiliers and 2nd Bedfords. Teams of eight per Regiment entered and the 2nd Bedfords won by 30 yards, the 4th Camerons being second. The Bedfords’ team was: Lieutenant Hurrell, Second Lieutenants Pearson, Figgis and Armstrong, Sergeants Grant and Nicholls, Corporal Groves, Private Hastings(1). The trophy was a shell case of the famous French 75mm shell, suitably inscribed.
As might be imagined this caused humorous about the best men to be in the trenches in winter when they are often waist deep in water. Tonight parties from the Battalion will be out in no-man’s-land putting out barbed wire to strengthen the defences.
Source: X550/3/wd and Biggleswade Chronicle 13th August
(1) Second Lieutenant Terence Charles Pearson would be killed at Loos on 26th September 1915; Private Arthur Benjamin Nicholls would be killed on the Somme on 30th July 1916.
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