Friday, 15 December 2017

Restful Leisure Pursuits

Lieutenant T J Pemberton [X550/1/81]

Saturday 15th December 1917

6th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment has been relieved from the front line near Ypres and is now enjoying providing working parties on the old battlefield, bringing up supplies, repairing trenches, collecting salvage, burying human remains and other restful leisure pursuits, as the adjutant described them. Five officers have joined for duty today - Lieutenant D J Greig, Lieutenant T J Pemberton, Second Lieutenant H Skipp, 2; W A S Ogden and Second Lieutenant A B Warnecke.


Source: X550/7/1

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