Saturday 29th September 1917

In Reserve at Canal Bank Dugouts, on the Ypres-Comines canal, opposite Bedford House.

Another bright and sunny day. Overnight, 29^th/30^th, a number of men from the Battalion, along with men from 9Yorks, were employed in supporting 23^rd Divisional Royal Engineers in digging a new communication trench from Clapham Junction out to the front line trenches.

2Lt. Arthur Neill (see 8^th May), who had left the Battalion almost five months previously having reported sick (details unknown), now re-joined.

Lt. George Stuart Hulburd (see 20^th September), who had suffered severe wounds to his right, arm and hand on 20^th September, was evacuated to England, travelling from Boulogne to Dover; on arrival in England he would be admitted to Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot.

Lt. George Stuart Hulburd

Image by kind permission of Paddy Ireland

L.Cpl. Ernest Wilson (28985) (see 20^th September) was evacuated to England; on arrival he would be admitted to Keighley War Hospital.

Pte. Henry Wood Thrippleton (see 17^th September), serving with 83^rd Training Reserve Battalion at Gateshead, was reported as ‘absent from tattoo’; he would return three days later and be deprived of three days’ pay and be confined to barracks for ten days.

Pte. Sam Appleyard (see 12^th June) who had been in hospital in Chatham having suffered a fractured left shoulder and other wounds on 7^th June, appeared before an Army Medical Board at Chatham. The Board recommended that he be discharged as no longer fit for service.

A payment of £5 2s. 4d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. George Brook (see 7^th June), who had been killed in action on 7^th June; the payment would go to his widow, Maud.