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4.30 am     5.2.15     LA FERME ST MAURICE
A, B & C Companies received orders to move to the CHATEAU ROSENTAL, D Company staying with the East Yorkshire Regt. -
[See appendix No.2]

 
5.30 am     CHATEAU ROSENTAL     5.2.15
There was not sufficient room for the men, so the Battalion was distributed in CHATEAU ROSENTAL and LANKHOF and some dug-outs on the YPRES - MESSIMES road. -
[See appendix no.2 A, B & C]

 
8 am     5.2.15
The casualties during the 24 hours 8am 4 Feb to 8am 5 Feb were killed 1 NCO wounded 1 man.-

Owing to men continually moving about, they were seen by a German aeroplane with the result that the CHATEAU ROSENTAL was shelled. A lesson which should not require learning again, though the actual damage done was small. -