Tuesday 23rd November 1915

‘A’ Company in the Bois Grenier Line; ‘B’ in billets at Chapelle d’Armentieres; ‘C’, ‘D’ and HQ in billets in Rue Marle.

The increasingly cold weather continued with severe frosts overnight.

At Rue Marle ‘C’ and ‘D’ Companies paraded for the presentation by Maj. Genl. Babington of the ribbon of the DCM to Pte. Sydney Wakefield (see 26^th October).

Pte. Sydney Wakefield DCM
Image by kind permission of Andy Wade and MenofWorth

Orders were received for the Battalion to be made ready to move, next day, to Jesus Farm.

Lt. Genl. Pulteney, commanding III Corps, endorsed the recent recommendation that CSM Harry Dewhirst (see 21^st November) be transferred to England.

Sgt. David Hinchcliffe (see 23rd September) departed for England on one weeks’ leave.

Pte. Edmund Peacock (see 18^th November) was evacuated back to England for further treatment having been wounded by shrapnel; he was admitted next day to Cambridge General Hospital.

Pte. Fred Richmond (see 19^th November) who had been wounded on 11^th November, and had been treated in hospital in Boulogne was removed from the dangerously ill list.