Thursday 29th June 1916

Fremont

There was an improvement in the weather and the day remained fine. In the morning the Battalion undertook a ten-mile route march and in the afternoon the men were instructed in the construction of bivouacs from waterproof sheets, in preparation for their move closer to the front line.

Pte. Joseph Dent (see 24th December 1915) departed for England on one week leave.

Pte. James Arthur Heap (see 10^th May) who had spent seven weeks in hospital after reporting sick with influenza, was posted to 23^rd Infantry Base Depot at Etaples, en route to a return to active service.

Pte. Thomas William Woodcock (see 9^th March), who had been in England since having been wounded in March, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of his wounds; he was awarded an Army pension (details unknown).

2Lt. Arthur Poynder Garratt (see 24^th June), serving with 9^th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s, who had been injured a week earlier, left hospital in Rouen to return to England, onboard the Hospital Ship St. George. On his arrival at Southampton he was transferred to Queen Alexandra’s Military Hospital, Millbank, London, for treatment to his fractured leg.

Pte. Edwin Everingham Ison (see 22^nd June), re-joined his unit, 1^st Battalion, West Yorkshires, a week after having been discharged from hospital following a bout of illness.

Edward Everingham Ison, pictured while serving with 10DWR

(Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton)