There was rain in the morning but the weather cleared in the
afternoon.
Pte. Thomas Arthur Bedford
(see 3rd April) was
promoted (unpaid) Lance Corporal.
Pte. Gilbert Swift
Greenwood (see 28th June),
who had been reduced to the ranks having fallen out on the line of march a
month earlier, was re-appointed to his post as Lance Corporal, although on an unpaid basis.
Pte. Frank William
Rabjohn (see 3rd May)
was ordered to undergo 14 days’ Field Punishment no.1; the nature of his
offence is unknown.
A number of men who had previously served with 10DWR were
among a draft posted from 3DWR to 34th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples,
pending a posting back to active service. Sgt. Richard Farrar (see 20th July) had been in England since having been wounded in October 1916; he would be posted to 2DWR. Pte. Ambrose Birdsall (see 6th
July) had been in England since being taken ill in March; Pte. Francis John Bottomley (see 17th March) had been in
England since reporting sick with paralysis to his left arm in March; Pte. Fred Brook (see 5th January) had been in England since having been
wounded in January and would be posted to 2nd/4th DWR; Pte.
John William Dean (see 19th May) had been in
England for the previous eleven months after suffering gas poisoning in August
1916; Ptes. Albert William Knight (see 20th February) and Ernest Taylor (29168) (see 9th June) had both been
under medical treatment in England since reporting sick with severe cases of
‘trench foot’ in February. Pte. Herbert
Willis Pickles (see 14th
July), was originally to have re-joined 10DWR but would instead be posted
to 2nd/6th DWR, joining his Battalion on 17th
August. Also among this draft was Pte. Walter
Smith (18428) who was due to join 10DWR but would instead remain at Etaples
for more than two months. He was a 21 year-old tailor’s fitter from
Huddersfield and had served in France with 8DWR between December 1916 and March
1917 before being invalided back to England suffering from piles.
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