A fine Spring Sunday was spent with the Battalion back in
billets and the usual Church services conducted.
Temp. Capt. John
Edward Lennard Payne (see 6th
March) who had been promoted (Temporary) Captain whilst commanding ‘D’
Company two months earlier, reverted to the rank of Lieutenant as he was no
longer commanding the Company. It would appear that his reversion was in
anticipation of the arrival of a new Captain (see 21st March).
Pte. Charles Edward
Lund (see 16th January)
was posted to 34th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples; having suffered
an injury to his hand (details unknown) he would be re-classified as unfit for
frontline service, but remained at Etaples.
Pte. Ernest Townsend
(see 8th February), suffered
another bout of scabies, for which he had been treated several weeks
previously; he was admitted to 4th Stationary Hospital at Arques.
Two days after the official notice was posted in the London Gazette that 2Lt. Howard Thurston Hodgkinson (see 9th March), had
relinquished his commission, Hodgkinson again wrote to the War Office regarding
his case:
“At your earliest
convenience I should be glad of a reply to my letter of 22nd inst.
As I am wholly dependent on my pay. If the operation had been performed at the
time first named I should no doubt have been fit for service at the end of
three months, it was however delayed a month through no fault of my own. I am
quite willing with your permission to go before another Medical Board in a
month’s time. I should however be glad of a reply one way of the other as soon
as possible so that I can make arrangements accordingly. At present I can do
nothing until I hear from you. Enclosed please find formal application for
retaining my rank of 2Lt.”
Lt. Paul James
Sainsbury (see 19th
February) serving with 3DWR at North Shields, who had been in hospital
since having an emergency operation to remove his appendix, appeared before a
further Medical Board in Newcastle. The Board found that, “This officer is
making satisfactory progress … he is up and about without discomfort but is not
yet fit for duty”. He was to remain in an officer’s convalescent hospital and
to be re-examined in a further six weeks
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| Lt. Paul James Sainsbury |
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