Wednesday 29th November 1916

Winnipeg Camp

Rest and the provision of some working parties for the Royal Engineers continued. The weather remained very misty and cold.

At 11am a ceremony was held for the presentation of the ribbon of the Victoria Cross by III Corps commander, Sir William Pulteney, to Capt. Henry Kelly (see 20^th November).

Capt. Henry Kelly VC

Having spent two weeks at 34^th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples Pte. Samuel Garside Hardy (see 16^th November) re-joined the Battalion; he had been away since being taken ill in September.

At 3.30 pm the Battalion left Winnipeg Camp to return to the front line, advance parties having left earlier in the day. They completed the short march back to Vlamertinghe and were then taken by train, leaving at 4.45pm and arriving at Ypres at 5.20 pm. From there they marched to the front lines to relieve 13DLI, being in position by midnight. Their new positions ran from I.18.a.5.7. to I.18.c.4.7. on the fringes of Zouave Wood, on the southern outskirts of Hooge, close to where they had been a month earlier. A Company was on the right, with C Company to their left; B Company was in close support in Leinster Trench along with one platoon of D Company; the remainder of D Company was held in reserve, along with Battalion HQ, at Halfway House.

After spending two weeks at 34^th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples, Pte. James Duncan Foster (see 14^th November) re-joined the battalion.

Pte. Sam Tinkler (see 4^th October), was discharged from Bradford War Hospital, where he had spent the previous eight weeks being treated for a fractured left femur, suffered when he had been kicked by a horse while on active service.

Pte. Sam Tinkler