Sunday 9th April 1916

Billets at Sains-en-Gohelle (Coron Fosse 10)

Conditions were again quiet. Orders were received for the Battalion to be prepared to relieve 9^th Yorkshires in the front line, with the relief to commence the following evening.

Pte. Archie Munro was admitted to 4^th Stationary Hospital at Arques; he was suffering from influenza and would be discharged to duty after six days. He had been an original member of the Battalion having enlisted in September 1914 along with his brother, William Munro. The brothers were originally from Hawick, but had been living, with the rest of their family, in Honley, where they both worked, along with their father, for Messrs. Josiah France Ltd., cloth manufacturers. Archie had actually been underage, being only 17 at the time, and William had been 24 when enlisting. 

Having been treated for four days for influenza, Pte. Stephen Grady (see 5^th April) returned to duty.


Pte. Johnny Smith (see 30^th March) was discharged from 4^th Stationery Hospital at Arques and re-joined the Battalion.

Pte. Johnny Smith

Pte. Edmund Peacock (see 30^th March) joined 9^th Battalion West Ridings. He had originally been a member of Tunstill’s Company but had been invalided back to England having been wounded in November 1915. He reported for duty along with 31 other men and immediately found himself in trenches near Houplines, when the Battalion relieved 6^th Dorsets.