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Tuesday, 11 April 2017

Thursday 12th April 1917

Scottish Camp, south-west of Brandhoek


Training continued, with the weather remaining cold but fine.

Pte. Charles Smith (29004) (see 16th January) was admitted to 69th Field Ambulance at Landbouver Farm, north-west of Reninghest, suffering from myalgia; two days later he would be transferred to the Divisional Rest Station at Waratah Camp, south-east of Poperinghe.
Lt. Thomas Beattie, (see 26th February), currently serving with 83rd Training Reserve Battalion in Gateshead, appeared befiore a further Medical Board assembled at Newcastle-on-Tyne. The Board found his condition to be unchanged from his previous appearance and instructed him to resume his duties at home for a further month.

A payment of £8 10s. was authorised, being the amount outstanding in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Frank Sanderson Chatwin (see 11th July 1916), who had been killed in action in July 1916; the payment would go to his father, Thomas.


A payment of £6 2s 1d was authorised, being the amount outstanding in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Frederick William Jesson (see 18th February), who had been killed at Le Sars in October 1916; following recent correspondence between his sister and the War Office the payment would go to his mother, Sarah.

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