Sunday 31st October 1915

Close reserve positions west of Fauquissart

The weather turned much colder. One man was wounded whilst on sentry duty. In a letter home to his family, Cpl. Norman Roberts (see 21^st August) briefly described conditions, “I have left the job of ration corporal to our machine gun section and gone back to my company, so I have had a little experience of the front line trench. We left (censored) and spent a few days in the support trenches, where there was plenty of rain and mud. We were almost washed out of our dug-outs. A few German shells visited us now and again even there”.

 

69^th Brigade War Diary recorded casualties for the Brigade since their arrival in France:

Killed                                      15
Accidentally killed                 1
Died of wounds                     6
Wounded                              88
Accidentally wounded        10

10DWR had sustained higher casualties than any other Battalion in the Brigade:

Killed                                     7
Accidentally killed              0
Died of wounds                   2
Wounded                           44
Accidentally wounded        2