Tuesday 3rd April 1917

‘L’ Camp, near Poperinghe

Training continued. There was further snow, heavy during the morning, and the weather remained bitterly cold.

Pte. Thomas Arthur Bedford (see 16^th December 1916) was reported by CSM Valentine Curson (see 27th March) for for “an untidy bed on hut inspection”; on the orders of Capt. Alfred Percy Harrison (see 1^st April) he was to be confined to barracks for five days.

After spending two months in hospital being treated for his wounds, Pte. Harold Wider (see 5^th February), was discharged from Edmonton Military Hospital in London.

Ptes. Eli Bradley (see 5^th August 1916), Henry Edgar Grass (see 3^rd October), Henry Holroyd (see 27^th November 1916), Arthur Hodgson (see 3^rd December 1916), and John Roebuck (see 5^th March), serving with 83^rd Training Reserve Battalion in Gateshead, were posted to 1DWR serving in India and would depart from Southampton, bound for Bombay.

A further payment, of £1 was authorised, on the account of the late Sgt. Ephraim Smith (see 21st December 1916), who had been killed in September; the payment would go to his widow, Mary.