Training continued in the Brigade training area, with 10DWR
and 11th West Yorks. working on ‘outpost schemes’.
Pte. Walter Robinson (14753) (see 29th July 1916), serving with 9DWR, was evacuated from a Casualty Clearing Station at Contay onboard no.31 Ambulance Train to hospital in Rouen; he was suffering from “I.C.T.” (Inflammation of the connective tissue) to his right knee. The details of his treatment are unknown.
Pte. James Bentley
Crosland (see 6th
September 1916), who had been in England for six months after being gassed
in August 1916, was posted to 3DWR at North Shields.
Pte. Walter Robinson (14753) (see 29th July 1916), serving with 9DWR, was evacuated from a Casualty Clearing Station at Contay onboard no.31 Ambulance Train to hospital in Rouen; he was suffering from “I.C.T.” (Inflammation of the connective tissue) to his right knee. The details of his treatment are unknown.
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| Pte. Walter Robinson (14753) |
Pte. William Frederick Ackrill (see 14th
January), who had been in hospital in Dundee since having been wounded in
January, was transferred to Carnoustie Hall Hospital.
Harry Beaumont was called up for service with the Royal
Garrison Artillery; he was the elder brother of Pte. Mark Beaumont (see 21st
January), 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. Harry had enlisted under the Derby Scheme in December 1915, aged
29, when working as a butcher, but was only now mobilized.
Battalion M.O., Capt. Cecil Berry (see 10th March), home on leave in England, was married, at St Bartholomew’s Church, Rainhill, to Ida Charnock, elder daughter of James Charnock of Rainhill.
Battalion M.O., Capt. Cecil Berry (see 10th March), home on leave in England, was married, at St Bartholomew’s Church, Rainhill, to Ida Charnock, elder daughter of James Charnock of Rainhill.
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| Image by kind permission of the Trustees of the DWR Museum |
Also married on the same day was Capt. Frank Redington MC (see 19th February), who had recently been transferred to 25th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps. He married Ethel Watson at the Wesleyan Church, Ripley, near Chesterfield. A report subsequently appeared in the local paper, The Courier:
MILITARY WEDDING AT RIPLEY
Stonebroom Officer as Bridegroom
A military wedding of considerable interest to Derbyshire
people took place at the Wesleyan Church, Ripley on Tuesday. The bridegroom,
Captain Frank H.C. Redington, MC, Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, eldest son of
Mr. and Mrs. T.R. Redington, Stonebroom, led to the altar Miss Ethel M. Watson,
only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Watson of Ryecroft, Ripley.
The bride, who was given away by her father, was in a bottle
green taffeta silk coat-dress with hat to match and she carried a bouquet of
white carnations and tulips. Her only bridesmaid, Miss Mabel A. Redington (a
military nurse, Falmouth), sister of the bridegroom, was in a putty coat-frock,
with hat to match, and she also carried a bouquet of pink carnations. The
duties of the best man were carried out by Lieutenant C.S. Tomlinson, South
Normanton (Sherwood Foresters), a friend of the bridegroom. The Rev. E. Bright,
of St. Ives, Hunts., a friend of the bride and bridegroom, was the officiating
minister. Later, Captain and Mrs. Redington left for Stratford-on-Avon, where
their short honeymoon is being spent before the bridegroom joins his regiment.
Captain Redington won the Military Cross a few months ago.
2Lt. Bob Perks, DSO
(see 4th January) wrote to
his father regarding the possibility of his father paying a visit to North
Shields where Bob was currently stationed with 3DWR.
My Dear Dad
Thanks very much for your letter today. I would be pleased to meet you any day with
warning though I can’t guarantee to meet that train. As Acting Brigade Officer, I start work at
6.00 pm so let me know your hotel and I will come as soon as possible if I miss
the train. The Station Hotel is as good
as any or the County.
If you brought my telegram from the Lord Chamberlain I think
I could get my expenses to go and see the King.
If you have not the telegram it is in the little cardboard drawer in our
room.
I looked for you in the Times, but saw nothing.
Thanks awfully
Some haste as I am really on parade.
Bob
(I am greatly indebted
to Janet Hudson for her kind permission to quote from Bob Perks’ correspondence).
A payment of £3 17s 4d was authorised, being the amount outstanding in pay and allowances to the late Cpl. Leslie Seymour Perks (see 27th October 1916), who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his mother, Ada.
A payment of £2 2s. 1d. was authorised, being the amount outstanding in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Herbert Milton Wood (see 6th June), who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his father, Irvine.
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2Lt. Bob Perks DSO
Image by kind permission of Janet Hudson
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A payment of £3 17s 4d was authorised, being the amount outstanding in pay and allowances to the late Cpl. Leslie Seymour Perks (see 27th October 1916), who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his mother, Ada.
A payment of £2 2s. 1d. was authorised, being the amount outstanding in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Herbert Milton Wood (see 6th June), who had been killed in action in October 1916; the payment would go to his father, Irvine.
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