Tuesday 26th June 1917

Le Coq de Pailie, close to Berthen

Pte. Alfred Whittaker (see 13^th June) was again ordered to be confined to barracks for five days by Capt. Bob Perks DSO (see 24^th June); the nature of his offence on this occasion is unknown.

2Lt. Sydney Charles Ernest Farrance (see 17^th January) arrived in France en route to join 10DWR.

Pte. Tom Darwin (see 22^nd June), who had been wounded on 7^th June, was evacuated to England from 3^rd General Hospital at Le Treport.

Sgt. Frederick Griggs MM (see 10^th March), who had been one of Tunstill’s original Company, having completed his course of officer training at no.7 Officer Cadet Battalion, based at Moore Park, Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland, was commissioned Second Lieutenant; he would be posted to 2DWR.

Pte. Robert Ellis Clayton (see 11^th February), who had, four months previously, deserted while serving with 83^rd Training Reserve Battalion, based at Gateshead, was returned to his Battalion ‘in the custody of the civil power’; he would be immediately placed in detention to await trial by District Court Martial. 

A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Robert Emson (see 2^nd February), who had been killed in action in October 1916; his father, William, was awarded 4s. per week.


A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Harold Schofield Hanson (see 6^th March 1917) who had died of “shrapnel wound to the right arm and pleurisy” in December 1916; his father, Joe, was awarded 12s. 6d. per week.