Monday 5th June 1916

Bouvigny Huts

A quiet day, with further training carried out.

Pte. Thomas Richardson (see 22^nd April) was reported for ‘smoking on night working party’; the exact date of his offence is unknown but he had been reported by 2Lt. Henry Herbert Owen Stafford (see 25^th April) and Cpl. Ernest Nussey (see 21^st March) and he would be confined to barracks for three days on the orders of Capt. James Christopher Bull (see 24^th May).

Pte. Edmund Peacock (see 9^th April) serving with 9DWR reported sick suffering from trench fever and was admitted to 52 Field Ambulance; he had originally been a member of Tunstill’s Company but had been invalided back to England having been wounded in November 1915 and subsequently posted to 9DWR. 

Pte. Joseph Bell (see 3^rd March), serving with 51^st Battalion, A.I.F., left Alexandria onboard the troopship “Ivernia”, bound for Marseilles. He was the elder brother of original Tunstill recruit Pte. William Irving Bell.

A payment of £3 13s. was authorised, being the amount outstanding in pay and allowances to the late L.Cpl. Joseph Fieldhouse (see 19^th March), who had died of wounds in March; the payment would go to his widow, Eva.