Letter to Major Binning: "Free Bathing at the Public Baths. I do not see how it is possible for the Corporation to increase the facilities for this Battalion bathing. We are now providing accommodation for 856 of your men to attend the swimming baths per week and if this does not provide for each man having a bath say once in seven days, I think the only way to meet the increased numbers will be for you to arrange for them to go say once in eight days or possibly nine." [1]
Charge sheet: Private H. Airey is absent without leave from tattoo for 30 minutes. Punishment given is two days confinement to barracks.[2]
Punishments in detention: W. Johnstone (15311) of B Company; H. Allen (13749) of C Company.[3]
Forfeiture of pay for absence: W. Bell (16441), T. Minshaw (16417), G. Fawcett (15417), G. Irving (13367), A. Ferguson (15336) and T. Cape (13873).[3]
Discharges on medical grounds: W. Pickering (13731), A. Robinson (13441) and W. Bell (13642) of C Company and N.H. McKenzie (13859) of D Company.[3]
Enlistments to E Company: Randolph Cameron (17561), D. Henderson (17562), G. Jamieson (17563) and John Sisson (17564).[3]
J. Diamond [rank not given] writes a letter to the Workington Star and Harrington Guardian saying: "Dear Sir, I am pleased to say I received your parcel of cigarettes and twist whilst in the trenches last week, and I desire to thank you and your readers for the kindness in sending out to us smokes. I need not tell you how much they are appreciated by all the boys out here. We have had a few more casualties during the past week, so we hope for the best when we go in again." [4]
↑Stand-to-Arms, or simply Stand-to, was the process of keeping watch in the front line trenches, observing for enemy movements and activity. Each man standing-to maintains a loaded rifle and fixed bayonet whilst standing on the trench fire step in readiness for an unexpected enemy attack.
