Sunday 7th October 1917

Most of the Battalion in camp (name unknown) north-west of Ypres; D Company and one platoon of B Company remained at Berthen, attached to 8Yorks.

The weather was fine early but turned wet by late morning, becoming colder and wetter as the day progressed.

The Battalion remained on attachment to 2^nd Battalion Canadian Railway Troops for work in the construction of a light railway.

Medical Officer Capt. Cecil Berry (see 3^rd September) left the Battalion to join 69^th Field Ambulance and was replaced by Capt. Leslie Fraser Eiloart Jeffcoat, who had previously served with the same unit. Jeffcoat was a New Zealander; he was 28 years old and the son of Dr. Frederick Howard Jeffcoat of Dunedin. He had originally served in Mesopotamia, where he had been taken ill and had spent time in hospital in India before joining 69^th Field Ambulance.

Image by kind permission of the Trustees of the DWR Museum

Capt. Leslie Fraser Eiloart Jeffcoat (left), pictured with 2Lt. Cyril Edward Agar.

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton.

L.Cpl. Thomas Riding (see 20^th September) was admitted to 71^st Field Ambulance suffering from ‘PUO’ (pyrexia of unknown origin); he would be discharged to duty after eight days. 

Pte. Harry Simpson (see 28^th June) departed for England on ten days’ leave.

Pte. David William Day was admitted to hospital in Dundee, suffering from nephritis. He was a 29 year-old clerk from Rotherhithe. He had originally served with 2^nd/7^th DWR; in the absence of a surviving service record the details of his service and transfer to 10DWR are unknown.