Thursday 26th July 1917

Le Coq de Pailie, close to Berthen

The very hot weather resumed.

The Battalion marched five miles south-west to Caestre where they boarded a train to travel twenty miles to St. Omer followed by a final seven-mile march west to billets between Zudausques and Boisdinghem, arriving late in the evening. 

Pte. Harry Squire (see 7^th July) was reported for “drinking on the line of march”; on the orders of Capt. Adrian O’Donnell Pereira (see 24^th July) he was to be confined to barracks for five days.

Capt. Alfred Percy Harrison (see 13^th June), who had been in England for the previous six weeks, having been wounded on 7^th June, appeared before a Medical Board. The Board found that, “he received bullet wounds, (a) of left foot with compound fracture of scaphoid bone. The wounds are healed, the foot is swollen, movements still limited; (b) of left leg just below the knee; superficial wound, now healed”. He was to remain in hospital for further treatment to his injured foot.

Pte. John Willie Walmsley (see 7^th June) who had been in England since having suffered severe shrapnel wounds to his left leg on 7^th June, was discharged from the County of Middlesex War Hospital in Napsbury, near St. Albans. He had a period on leave in England before joining 3DWR. He would subsequently be posted back to France (date and details unknown) and would be transferred to the Machine Gun Corps.

Pte. John William Ford (see 29^th July 1916), who had been wounded in July 1916, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of his wounds. He was assessed as having suffered a 30% disability and was awarded an Army pension of 12s. per week.