Saturday 4th November 1916

Barracks in Ypres

At 5pm the Battalion left its billets, which were handed over to 8KOYLI, and marched to Ypres station to board a train for Vlamertinghe, leaving at 8 pm. On arrival they completed the short march of a mile south to Winnipeg Camp, where they were to spend the next five days in Corps Reserve.

L.Cpl. Albert Bradley (see 3^rd November) was admitted via 70^th Field Ambulance to 17^th Casualty Clearing Station at Remy Sidings; he was suffering from influenza. 

Sgt. Arthur Manks (see 1^st September) was transferred from 3DWR at North Shields to 83^rd Training Reserve Battalion based nearby in Gateshead.

Following some discussion over what should be accepted as the appropriate date, the War Office concluded that 4^th October should be the date of death recorded on the death certificate the late Lt. Harry Harris (see 2^nd November) who had been killed at Le Sars.

Lt. Harry Harris

Lt. Paul James Sainsbury, (see 9^th October) who would later serve with 10DWR, appeared before a further Medical Board convened at Caxton Hall Hospital, London. The Board found, “He is considerably better and is now fit for general service at home”. As a consequence he was instructed to join 3DWR at Tynemouth.

Lt. Paul James Sainsbury

L.Sgt. Mark Allan Stanley Wood, (see 4^th  July) who had been serving with 16^th West Yorkshires, but had been in England, suffering from nephritis (inflammation of the kidney) since July, was discharged from hospital. The medical discharge note recorded, “Slow recovery, still an occasional trace of albumen”, but he was instructed to report to West Yorks. Regimental Depot in York. He would later be commissioned and serve with 10DWR.

Pte. Herbert Edwin James Biggs was posted to begin his officer training course; having completed the course he would be commissioned and posted to join 10DWR. Biggs was 21 years old (born 16^th July 1895) and an imposing figue, standing over six feet tall. He was the eldest of four children of Herbert James and Florence Henrietta Biggs; the family had lived in Enfield where Herbert snr. worked as Chief Clerk for the Great Eastern Railway Company. Herbert jnr. had also worked as a clerk for G.E.R. before enlisting on 14^th September 1914 and had joined 7^th Battalion, London Regiment. He had arrived in France on 17^th March 1915 and had suffered wounds to his head and leg in May which had seen him in hospital in Rouen for ten weeks before re-joining his Battalion in August 1915. He had then been invalided back to England on 26^th December 1915, initially suffering from impetigo, and had remained in England ever since.

Pte. Herbert Edwin James Biggs