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Monday, 7 August 2017

Wednesday 8th August 1917


Billets between Zudausques and Boisdinghem.
There was a torrential downpour in the evening which Brig. Genl. Lambert (see 3rd August)  described as, “the heaviest downpour I have seen in France”.
Lt. George Stuart Hulburd (see 1st July) returned to France, en route to re-joining the Battalion; he had been in England since being taken ill in April.
Lt. George Stuart Hulburd
Image by kind permission of Paddy Ireland
Sgt. John Ratlidge (see 23rd July), who was home on leave, married Mary Durkin at St. Annes’s Church, Keighley.
2Lt. John Robert Dickinson (see 17th July), who was back in England having been treated for trench fever, reported for duty with 3DWR at North Shields. 


Pte. Eli Bradley (see 6th May), serving in India with 1DWR, was admitted to hospital in Gharial, suffering from contusions; he would be discharged to duty after six days.

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