The 1st Battalion
1st Batt. Jan.
The beginning of 1916 found the 1st Battalion in Brigade Reserve at La Gorgue, where it had retired after a strenuous time in the trenches, and where it settled down to steady drill and instruction in bombing.
The list of officers was as follows:
Lieut.-Colonel G. F. Trotter, M.V.O., D.S.O., Commanding Officer.
Major C. R. C. de Crespigny, Second in Command.
Lieut. E. H. J. Duberly, Adjutant.
Lieut. F. E. H. Paget, Lewis Gun Officer.
Lieut. the Earl of Dalkeith, Bombing Officer.
Capt. Lord Stanley, Transport Officer.