Wednesday 12th September 1917

Billets in the Lederzeele area.

A Brigade practice attack was conducted, observed by Genl. Sir Herbert Plumer, commanding 2^nd Army.

Pte. Nicholson Braddock (see 5^th July) was awarded seven days’ Field Punishment no.1 for stealing fruit from an orchard.

A/Sgt. George Holmes (10794) (see 23^rd March) re-joined 8DWR from duty to Etaples (details unknown and reverted to his substantive rank of Lance Corporal.
Pte. Fred Smith (15149) (see 7^th July) was posted from Northern Command Depot at Ripon to 3DWR at North Shields.

Pte. George Smith (20340) (see 5^th June), who had been in England since reporting sick five months’ previously, was posted from Northern Command Depot at Ripon to 3DWR at North Shields, en route to a return to active service.


A payment of £6 2s. 7d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. William Ackroyd (see 1^st May), who had been killed in action in May while serving in France with 2DWR; the payment would go to his widow, Edith.

A payment of £1 15s. 5d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Arthur Gill (see 1^st June), who had been killed in action on 22^nd May; the payment would go to his mother, Helen.

Pte. Arthur Gill

The office of the Director of Graves Registration and Enquiries at the War Office wrote to the father of the late Lt. Harry Harris (see 16^th January) informing him that his son’s remains had been interred at “a point about 1,000 yards south-west of Le Sars, south-west of Bapaume”. At some later point (details unknown), his remains would be exhumed and re-buried at Adanac Military Cemetery, north-west of Le Sars; however, the precise location of his grave was lost and he is now commemorated on one of the special memorials in the cemetery.

Lt. Harry Harris