Monday 13th August 1917

Billets near Moulle.

A fine, sunny day, though there was more heavy rain during the evening.

Pte. Leonard Hurley (see 6^th August) again found himself on a charge; on this occasion his offence was, “Inattention on line of march, ie not keeping step”. He was reported Sgt. Michael Kenefick MM (see 23^rd July); on the orders of Lt. Arthur Poynder Garratt (see 6^th August) he was to be confined to barracks for two days.

Pte. Ellis Sutcliffe (see 22^nd July), who had suffered relatively minor shrapnel wounds to his back on 22^nd July, was discharged from 6^th General Hospital at Rouen and posted to 34^th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples, en route to a return to active service. 

Sgt. Wilson Allinson (see 11^th July), who had been wounded a month previously, was posted back to England (details unknown).

Sgt. Arthur Manks (see 24^th February) was transferred from 2^nd (Home Service) Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment to 1^st (Garrison) Battalion King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.

Lt. Philip Howard Morris (see 1^st August), who had been wounded on 7^th June and was now serving with 3DWR at North Shields, appeared before an Army Medical Board assembled at Tynemouth. The Board found that “the wounds remain healed but are rather dragged upon at present in free movements of the arm. The arm has not regained full strength yet”; they found him fit for home service for a month, with a further Board to follow.

Pte. Edward Grayshon (see 16^th May), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was appointed Lance Corporal.

Pte. James Thomas Sagar (see 19^th March), who was serving at Northern Command Depot at Ripon, having been posted back to England in November 1916, was reported for ‘overstaying his special leave’. He would return to duty next day and would be sentenced to three days confined to barracks.


A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. William Holdsworth (see 17^th May 1917) who had died of wounds in February 1917; his widow, Elizabeth, was awarded £1 8s. 9d. per week for herself and their four surviving children.