Wednesday 10th May 1916

Billets at Pernes

A bright and sunny and generally quiet day. In the evening orders were received that the Battalion would return to Hersin next day.

L.Cpl. Matthew Best (see 16^th March) reported sick, suffering from severe toothache.

L.Cpl. Matthew Best

Pte. James Arthur Heap (see 27^th December 1915) was admitted 23^rd Casualty Clearing Station to 16^th General Hospital at Le Treport suffering from influenza.

A further attempt was made to progress the case of 2Lt. William Neville Dawson (see 29^th April), who had been reported as being unfit to continue as a platoon officer. Staff at 23^rd Division HQ requested of 69^th Brigade whether they considered Dawson as fit to be employed with a Labour Battalion, and, if not, whether he had any other relevant qualifications.

Lance Sergeant Cyril Edward Agar, (see 29^th March), serving with 9^th Yorkshires, was discharged from  Scarborough Military Hospital where he had been for the previous six weeks, having been taken ill  whilst home on leave from France; the nature of his illness is not known. He would later be commissioned and serve with 10DWR.

Cyril Edward Agar, pictured while serving with 10DWR
(Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton)