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*Battalion Orders: On and after Sunday 16th every man leaving Campcamp for the purpose of proceeding to town will be required to carry a cane of regulation length. <ref>{{lowther|recno=136}}</ref>

*Deserter Isaac Parker (16286) of {{C Company}} is struck off.<ref name="lowther135">{{lowther|recno=135}}</ref>

*Punishments: R. Rumney (13845) of {{D Company}} is given 28 days’ detention.<ref name="lowther135" /><ref group="lower-alpha">Private Rumney is disciplined/detained on at least two other occasions, those on [[23 January]] and [[6 March]], 1915.</ref>

*Enlistments: [[Joseph Henry Dowson (17518 Pte.)]] enlists into {{A Company}}.

*EnlistmentsFourteen new recruit enlistments to E Company: <ref name="lowther135" /><ref group="lower-alpha">The following men are enlisted into E Company:

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*SituatedBouzincourt: inIn rest [[billet|billets]] at Bouzincourt.<ref name="wdjan16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, January 1916]]</ref>

*[[Private]] R. Pearson writes to the [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]: "Dear Sir – I take this opportunity of thanking you for the splendid gift of cigarettes, which were delivered to me in the [[trench]]es. We are at present resting in a village behind the firing line. We are billeted in old barns, which are over-run with rats. Thanking you and your readers once again, and wishing your valuable paper, every success." <ref>From the newspaper article ''[[Overrun with Rats]]'' &ndash; [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]], Published January, 1916.</ref>

*Bus: Battalion situated at Bus supplying [[working parties]].<ref name="wdjan17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, January 1917]]</ref>

*Battalion situated at Tournehem.: Parading on 'B' Range and carrying out firing practices.<ref name="wdjan18">[[11th Battalion War Diary, January 1918]]</ref>