Monday 20th August 1917

Billets near Moulle.

On another fine, hot day, training continued with the Battalion carrying out “a demonstration, on the X Corps School grenade ground at Inglinghem, of a platoon in the attack, bringing into use the co-operation of all weapons available and including the co-operation from Stokes Mortars”.

Pte. Peter Herity (see 6^th July) was reported by Sgt. William Allen Sayer (see 7^th August) as being “deficient of iron rations (tea and sugar); on the orders of Capt. Dick Bolton (see 19^th June) he was to be confined to barracks for three days.

Enquiries were made regarding the injury sustained by Pte. John Foster (see 27^th July), who had injured his knee whilst on a carrying party a month previously and had subsequently been evacuated to England. Statements were taken from Sgt. George Manning of 69^th Machine Gun Company and Pte. Arthur Greenbank (see 16^th January 1917) who, like Foster himself, was on attachment to the carrying party. Manning reported that “On Saturday 14^th July I was in charge of a carrying party with ammunition for the front line. No.29648 Pte. Foster, J., was with my party. On Sunday morning, 15^th July, he reported to me that he had sprained his knee. I told him to report sick”. Greenbank confirmed what Manning had said and added that, “Pte. Foster told me he had fallen on a railway track”.

2Lt. Leopold Henry Burrow (see 24^th July), who had been in hospital for the previous five weeks after reporting sick with an injury to his right leg,  was discharged from 83^rd General Hospital in Boulogne and posted to 34^th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples.

Pte. Farrand Kayley (see 27^th March 1916), brother of Tunstill’s recruits James (see 27^th March 1916) and Job Kayley (see 29^th July 1916), who was serving in France with 1^st/6^th Battalion West Ridings as a transport driver, returned to England on ten days’ leave.

A payment of £1 17s. 1d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late LCpl. Leonard Green (see 7^th June); the payment would go to his father, Arthur.