Saturday 13th January 1917

Winnipeg Camp

Training continued. There had been a plan for a Brigade exercise in communicating between infantry and aircraft, but this had to be postponed because of the wet and misty weather.

Sgt. Edward George John Cooke (see 7^th October 1915) was promoted WO Class II and Company Sergeant Major. 

L.Cpl. William Allen Sayer (see 9^th October) was promoted Corporal.

Pte. George William Keeling (see 4^th October) was promoted Lance Corporal.

Pte. John Stephenson (see 17^th June 1916) was promoted (unpaid) Lance Corporal.

Pte. Ernest Townsend (see 17^th October 1916) was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance to 50^th Casualty Clearing Station at Hazebrouck; he was suffering from scabies.

After being treated for a week for myalgia, Pte. Leonard Green (see 7^th January) was discharged to duty.

Pte. John Cork (see 5^th January), who had been wounded in the German shelling of Ypres, was evacuated to England onboard the hospital ship Carisbroke Castle; it is not clear to which hospital he was admitted once returned.

2Lt. Charles Archibald Milford (see 23^rd November 1916), who had spent the previous seven weeks in hospital in Boulogne, was discharged and posted to 34^th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples.

Pte. Albert Hoggarth (see 10^th January), who had been posted to France a few days previously to join 9DWR, was instead directed to join 10DWR.