The Trainers for the Americans

Tuesday 21st May 1918

Today we learned the officers of the 6th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment comprising the training staff for the Americans. Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. Edwards M.C. will be commanding officer.His staff will comprise Acting Captain D.M.Saunders (adjutant) Captain J. A. M. Hislop (Quartermaster), Captain A. W. Elliott M. C., Acting Captain O. E. Hobson, Lieutenants D. J. Greig (Lewis Gun Officer), and C. C. Clifford (Intelligence Officer) and Second Lieutenants W. Johnson, A. E. Iliffe  E. E. Ashby, (Signals Officer) as well as Regimental Sergeant Major, four Company Sergeant Majors, a Company Quartermaster Sergeant and forty eight other ranks. They proceeded to Mondricourt and caught a train to Audruicq.

Source: X550/7/1

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