1915

1^st April 1915.  Arrived at Poona.  Met at Ghorpuri Siding by Brigadier-General H.T. Brooking, C.B., and the officers of the 2/4^th Wiltshire Regiment, who kindly sent their band to play the Battalion into the station.  Stationed in Ghorpuri Barracks.  Lieut. P.L. Corban-Lucas and 40 other ranks of the 1^st Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment were attached to the Battalion as an instructional party.  The month of April was spent in company training and preliminary musketry, officers and N.C.O.’s being sent to Schools of Instruction at Quetta, Pachmari, and Satara.

29^th April 1915.  The Battalion was inspected by Major-General C.G. Donald, Inspector of the Territorial Force in India.

30^th April 1915.  The Battalion took part in the Brigade parade for the presentation of medals by Brigadier-General H.T. Brooking, C.B., to the 102^nd K.E.O. Grenadiers, lately returned from Muscat.