Thursday 29th March 1917

‘L’ Camp, near Poperinghe

The weather again turned wet. Training continued.

2Lt. Bob Perks, DSO (see 13^th March) returned to France en route to re-join 10DWR. 

2Lt. Bob Perks DSO

Two days after having been reported to have deserted, Pte. William Postill Taylor (see 27^th March) was apprehended and placed under guard, awaiting trial.

Pte. Patrick Conley (see 23^rd March), serving with 83^rd Training Reserve Battalion at Gateshead, was reported as absent overnight 29^th/30^th, until reporting at 7am on 30^th; on the orders of Capt. Gilbert Tunstill (see 26^th January), he was to be confined to barracks for seven days.

2Lt. Maurice Tribe MC (see 10^th February), who had been severely injured at Le Sars, appeared before a Medical Board at Caxton Hall, London, having recently been discharged from hospital. The Board found him unfit for General Service for three months; unfit for Home Service for two months; and unfit for light duties at Home for six weeks. He was accordingly awarded six weeks’ leave before being re-examined.

Gnr. Harry Beaumont who had recently been called up for service with the Royal Garrison Artillery was posted to ‘C’ Mountain Battery in the 5^th Reserve Brigade; he was the elder brother of Pte. Mark Beaumont (see 13^th March), who was in hospital in England having suffered severe shrapnel wounds to his left thigh when the Battalion billets in Ypres had been shelled in January.


A pension award was made in respect of the late Cpl. Joseph Edward Preston (8^th February) who had been killed in action in October 1916; his mother, Martha, was awarded 2s. per week for life.

Cpl. Joseph Edward Preston

A payment of £3 7s. 7d. was authorised, being the amount outstanding in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Thomas Rigby (see 3^rd August 1916), who had died of wounds following the actions on the Somme in the Summer of 1916; the payment would go to his father, Thomas snr.

 

Pte. Thomas Rigby

A payment of £3 0s. 7d. was authorised, being the amount outstanding in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Charlie Wilman (see 6^th October 1916), who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his widow, Elsie.