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Saturday, 1 April 2017

Monday 2nd April 1917

‘L’ Camp, near Poperinghe

Training continued. The weather remained very cold, with a biting wind and some rain and snow.

Pte. Smith Hesselden (see 3rd March) was reported as having a “dirty rifle on 9am parade”; on the orders of Capt. Edgar Stanton (see 31st March) he was to be confined to barracks for three days.
Brig Genl. Lambert (see 31st March) presented the commemorative silver salver to the 11th West Yorks. as winners of the Brigade competitions.
(I am greatly indebted to Juliet Lambert for her generosity in allowing me access to Brig. Genl. Lambert’s diary and letters).


Pte. Hubert Crabtree (see 8th November 1916), serving in France with 8DWR (it is not known when he had been posted back to France), was admitted to 11th Casualty Clearing Station at Varennes, suffering from trench foot. He would be transferred, two days later, by no.3 Ambulance Train for further treatment (details unknown).

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