Sunday 4th June 1916

Bouvigny Huts

The settled routine of the previous days resumed, with further training carried out.

Sgt. George Clifford Sugden, serving with 10^th East Yorkshires, was wounded in action; he suffered a facial wound during German shelling of British positions near Hebuterne, on the Somme (more than 20 men were killed and almost 50 wounded). He was admitted to 10^th General Hospital at Rouen. He would later be commissioned and serve with 10DWR. George Clifford Sugden was born 28^th December 1891, the second of eight children, three of whom died in infancy, of John William and Mary Alice Sugden. The family farmed land at Barmby-on-the-Marsh, near Goole, but Clifford himself worked as an insurance manager. He enlisted in the newly-formed 10^th battalion, East Yorkshires on 5^th September 1914 and trained with them in England for the next 15 months, being promoted Sergeant in December 1914. In December 1915 the Battalion sailed from Devonport, arriving at Port Said two weeks later. They remained in Egypt until embarking for Marseilles on 29^th February 1916, from where they had been transported by train to the Somme sector.

Pte. John Beckwith (see 29^th May) who had left 10DWR after being wounded in March, was posted from the Regimental Depot to 11^th (Reserve) Battalion at Brocton Camp, in preparation for a return to active service.