Monday 10th September 1917

Billets in the Lederzeele area.

A very hot day.

The Battalion was again engaged in training for the forthcoming attack, with the Brigade War Diary recording that, “The day was devoted by units to learning their objectives on the practice ground”.

Cpl. George William Keeling (see 12^th August) was promoted Acting Sergeant.

L.Cpl. Thomas Riding (see 25^th July) began to be paid according to his rank, having previously held the rank unpaid. 

Capt. Dick Bolton (see 24th August), commanding A Company, and Pte. Thomas Charles Jaques (see 5^th July) were both admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance hospital at St. Omer; both were suffering from “pyrexia NYD” (high temperature, not yet diagnosed).

Capt. Dick Bolton

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

Pte. Sidney Powdrill (see 5^th July) was also admitted to 69^th Field Ambulance; he was diagnosed as suffering from influenza and would be transferred to 23^rd Division Rest Station for further treatment.

Pte. Augustus Edgar Stone (see 16^th July) was also admitted initially to 69^th Field Ambulance, but then  transferred via 41^st Casualty Clearing Station to 7^th Canadian General Hospital at Etaples; he had been diagnosed as suffering from influenza, but was then found to be suffering from chronic nephritis.

Cpl. Albert George Ashton (see 3^rd July) was posted back to England to join 3DWR at North Shields; he had been found to have defective eyesight which made him unfit for active service.

Ptes. Herbert Burgess (see 4th September), Herbert Butterworth (see 24^th July), Harold Walker Bray (see 1^st August), Ernest Fozard (see 9^th August), and Herbert Farrand Hogley (see 12^th August) and Menhell Hudson (see 1^st August) were posted back to to France; they would not re-join 10DWR but were instead posted to 2/6^thDWR.

Pte. Robert Cresswell (see 7^th September), who had been one of Tunstill’s original recruits but had been transferred to 2^nd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment in September 1916, was married, whilst on leave, to Lydia Alice Fell; the wedding was held at Giggleswick Parish Church.

A payment of £2 19s. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Harold Clarkson (see 30^th May) who had been killed in action on 30^th May; the payment would go to his father, George. A parcel of Clarkson’s personal effects (details unknown) was also despatched to the family.

Pte. Harold Clarkson

Image by kind permission of Edward Wild

A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Herbert Bayfield (see 30^th May) who had been killed in action in February; his widow, Alice, was awarded 18s. 9d. per week for herself and their son.