Sunday 12th August 1917

Billets near Moulle.

A bright morning, but with further rain in the afternoon.

Cpl. Christopher Clapham (see 27^th May) was promoted Lance Sergeant.

L.Cpl. James Henry Howarth (see 27^th May) was promoted Corporal.

L.Cpls. Alfred Exley (see 15^th June), Frank Mallinson (see 15^th June) and Howarth Reid all began to be paid according to their rank, having previously held the post unpaid.

L.Cpl. Ernest Wilson (28985) (see 3^rd August) was reprimanded by 2Lt. Charles George Edward White (see 15^th June); he had been reported by Cpls. Harold Best (see 4^th August) and Albert Harold Hanson (see 11th August) as having been “gambling with privates”. One of the men with whom he had been caught gambling was Pte. Joseph Livesey (see 4^th August); he was also reported by Best and Hanson, but he was to be confined to barracks for seven days on the orders of 2Lt. John William Pontefract (see 15^th June).

L.Sgt. Albert Bradley (see 1^st June), Cpl. George William Keeling (see 20^th May), L.Cpl. Fred Atkinson (see 7th June) and Ptes. Samuel Cordingley (see 20^th October 1916) and Ben Pedder (see 6^th June 1916) departed for England on ten days’ leave.

Sgt. Ronald Jeckell (see 23^rd July), who had been wounded three weeks previously, was evacuated to England from 12^th General Hospital at Rouen. 

Pte. Herbert Farrand Hogley (see 10^th June), who was in England having suffered a relatively minor wound to his right hand on 7^th June, was posted to 3DWR, en route to returning to active service.