Monday 18th June 1917

Le Coq de Pailie, close to Berthen

A very hot day, with some thunder in the afternoon. Rest and training continued.

L.Cpl. Ernest Pearson (see 9^th June) began to be paid according to his rank, which he had previously held unpaid. 

Pte. Joseph Wilkinson (see 22^nd December 1916) was temporarily attached for duty at 23^rd Division HQ, as batman to a chaplain.

Pte. Charles William Hird (see 8^th June), who had suffered a relatively minor wound to the arm ten days earlier, was evacuated to England.

Cpl. Henry Markham (see 14^th January), who had suffered severe wounds to his right thigh and left foot in the shelling of Ypres in January, was transferred from Lochee Red Cross Hospital in Dundee to Brechin Infirmary.

A payment of £2 4s. 11d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Fred Ainley (see 5^th January) who had been killed at Ypres; the payment would go to his mother, Emma.