Friday 7th September 1917

Billets in the Lederzeele area.

The Battalion was again engaged in training for a forthcoming attack.

Lt. Charles Frederick Wolfe (see 15^th June), Transport Officer to 10DWR, left the Battalion to take up an appointment with the Army Service Corps; he had for some time been acting as Brigade Transport Officer for 69^th Brigade.

Pte. George Carter (see 4^th September) was reported for ‘talking on parade’; he would be ordered to undergo seven days’ Field Punishment no.1.

Pte. Arthur William Drane (see 5^th July) was reported by the Military Police as having been, “improperly dressed when walking out in Lederzeele”; on the orders of Capt. Bob Perks DSO (see 4^th September) he would be confined to barracks for four days.

Pte. Stanley Sykes (see 13^th November 1916) departed on ten days’ leave to England.

Pte. Harry Briggs (19286) (see 10^th November 1916), serving with 5^th Army School of Mortars, was reported as “failing to comply with standing orders”; he would forfeit three days’ pay.

Ptes. Thomas Lloyd (see 24^th May) and James Edward Simpson (see 30^th July), serving in France with 2/6DWR, were both appointed Lance Corporal.

Ptes. Selwyn Stansfield (see 24^th May) , who had been in England since being wounded in May, and Milton Wood (see 15^th July), who had been in England since being taken ill in July, were both posted to Northern Command Depot at Ripon, en route to a return to active service.

Pte. Robert Cresswell (see 27^th September 1916), who had been one of Tunstill’s original recruits but had been transferred to 2^nd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment in September 1916, returned to England on ten days’ leave.

The weekly edition of the Craven Herald published news of the commission granted to 2Lt. Harley Bentham (see 30^th July)

COMMISSION FOR HELLIFIELD SOLDIER

Mr. Harley Bentham, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Bentham, Thorndale Street, Hellifield, has been gazetted Sec.- Lieut. in the Duke of Wellington's. Mr. Bentham enlisted in the Duke of Wellington's in January, 1916, and went out to France the following May. Since coming home to study for his commission, he has spent some months in training at Gailes, Scotland. Formerly he was employed as a bank clerk in the Bank of Liverpool at Settle. He joins his regiment on Monday next.

2Lt. Harley Bentham