Tuesday 17th July 1917

Two Companies in the front line, between I.30.b.9.8. and I.30.c.8.4; Battalion HQ and one Company in Hedge Street Tunnels and the remaining Company in Canada dugouts.

A wet day

Pte. John Thomas Brady (see 7^th April) was reported for “not complying with standing orders; ie not declaring himself verminous”; on the orders of Capt. Stanhope Bayne Jones of 69^th Field Ambulance he was to forfeit five days’ pay.

2Lt. John Robert Dickinson (see 21^st June), who had been under treatment for ‘trench fever’ in hospital at Wimereux for the previous month, appeared before a Medical Board at Wimereux. He was granted three weeks’ home leave and would depart next day for England onboard the Invicta. 

Pte. William Neville Dawson (see 26^th May), who was now serving with 16^th (Transport Workers) Battalion York and Lancasters, having been ordered to relinquish his commission  following extended proceedings regarding his capacity to hold the post of Second Lieutenant, was promoted Lance Corporal.

2Lt. Godfrey Isaacs (see 10^th June) who had been in hospital at Wimereux for the previous week, was evacuated to England. He had been slightly wounded but remained at duty on 7^th June. However, it  was said that though “He had managed to carry on for a day or two … he became very jumpy and anxious and was suffering the symptoms of concussion”. Having arrived in England he appeared before a Medical Board which found that, “a machine gun bullet had penetrated his shrapnel hat and made a slight abrasion to left of vertex about middle of head (from front to back). He was thrown down but did not lose consciousness. Since he has been suffering from the symptoms of concussion, viz. headaches, tremor, insomnia, battle dreams, easy fatigue. He has not made any improvement in these symptoms and requires hospital treatment. The wound has quite healed”. He was declared unfit for service and would be admitted to Bowhill Auxiliary Hospital in Selkirk.  


A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Richard Greenwood (see 17^th May) who had been killed in action in October 1916; his mother, Hannah, was awarded 4s. per week.