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. 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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