re days the Battalion, now a Training Cadre, moved by 'bus to
a camp just outside Dieppe, and there a month was spent awaiting further
orders. The time was spent in the training of the N.C.O.'s who were to be
instructors on special subjects, and in visits to the town. The band had
been lent to the 50th Division, which had been filled up by new
battalions from Salonica and was able to play selections in the camp, and
on one occasion in the town.

At the end of the month's stay, about the middle of August, it was
announced that the battalions were not to be disbanded, but retained for
training purposes. A few days later the Cadres of the 5th, 6th and 8th
Durham Light Infantry moved by train to Rouen, where they were to build a
camp and start a new institution, that of instructing reinforcement
officers at the Base in tactical schemes. The officers of the Cadres
therefore began the latter work, whilst the N.C.O.'s and men worked, or
superintended the work on the new camp. In this somewhat monotonous way
two months dragged on, during which, in the temporary absence on sick
leave of Lieut.-Col. Walton, Lieut.-Col. Montgomerie, M.C., of the
Norfolk Regiment, was in command. The band still remained with the
Battalion and after the Armistice was granted permission to play on the
Joan of Arc statue, being the first British band to do so. They also had
the unique experience of playing "Blaydon Races" in Rouen Cathedral.

About the middle of October came rumours of the splitting up of the
Cadres, and on the 18th October Lieut.-Col. Walton was ordered to proceed
to take command of the 18th Durham Light Infantry. He was succeeded by
Lieut.-Col. A.L. MacMillan of the Seaforth Highlanders, who commanded,
however, for only a few days, for on the 6th November the Battalion was
demobilised, and within a few days the personnel had been scattered to
various battalions all over France.

So within a few days of the Armistice, ended the career of the 6th Durham
Light Infantry in France, after three and a half years of good work which
had made for it, right up to the end, a reputation which bore not a
single stain, and which on more than one occasion had caused it to be
held up as an example of the efficiency of the Territorial Force to which
it had the great honour to belong.

APPENDICES.

APPENDIX I.

OFFICERS KILLED OR DIED.

Major S.E. Badcock }
Capt. T.J. Monkhouse }26th April, 1915.
2nd