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Friday, 27 October 2017

Sunday 28th October 1917

Zudausques

A fine day.
Training and range practice.
Orders were issued to 23rd Division to prepare at short notice; “The Division complete will be in readiness to move by rail forthwith; destination unknown”. These preparations were ordered in response to a crisis on the Italian Front which had seen two Italian armies routed by a large-scale Austrian attack.
Pte. Leonard Briggs (see 23rd October), who had only re-joined the Battalion five days earlier following ten days’ treatment for conjunctivitis, again reported sick. He was admitted first to 70th Field Ambulance and then transferred to 10th Stationary Hospital at St. Omer, suffering from influenza.
Pte. Tom Midgley (see 22nd March) was reported by L.Sgt. Jonathan Richardson Sunderland (3rd October) as having been “dirty on 3.30pm parade”; on the orders of Capt. Henry Kelly VC (see 15th October) he was to be confined to barracks for three days.


Ptes. Will Lee (see 18th October) and Leonard Wilby (see 17th October), who had been in hospital since having been wounded earlier in the month, were discharged from hospital and posted to 3rd Convalescent Depot at Le Treport, en route to re-joining 10DWR (date and details unknown).

Pte. Alfred Henry Dobby (see 20th September), who had been wounded on 20th September, was discharged from 3rd Convalescent Depot at Le Treport and posted to one of the Infantry Base Depots (details unknown); he would subsequently (date and details unknown) be transferred to the Labour Corps.
Capt. William Norman Town (see 16th April) arrived in France en route to joining 10DWR.

Ptes. Thomas Grady (see 18th May 1916) and John William Smith (11986) (see 18th May 1916), serving on Permanent Base Duties with 8th Division, were transferred to the Labour Corps.

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