Sunday 15th October 1916

Billets in Yvrench

Reveille was at 4am and breakfast at 4.30, with the five mile march to Conteville station underway at 6.15 am; the transport section, under Lt. Leonard Phillips (see 5^th July) had already departed at 3am. Everything ran on schedule on this occasion and the Battalion travelled by train from Conteville to Hopoutre, arriving at 3pm (the station at Hopoutre was known to the troops as "hop out" because it was the place where troops arriving in the Salient used to "hop out" of their trains). From there they completed the final one mile march to their billets in Poperinghe.

After the rigours of their duties on the Somme and the extended journey north the men were to be given a well-deserved period of rest in Poperinghe.

Lt. Leonard Norman Phillips

Image by kind permission of Scott Flaving

2Lt. Maurice Tribe (see 4^th October) who had been under treatment for the previous ten days for the significant injuries he had suffered at Le Sars was now evacuated to England onboard the hospital ship Asturias.


Pte. Thomas Hockey (see 6^th October), who had been in hospital since suffering the ‘effects of irritant shell gas’ was discharged from 2^nd General Hospital at Le Havre and posted to a Convalescent Depot (details unknown); once recovered he would be posted to 2DWR.