Most of the Battalion in Camp (name unknown) north-west of
Ypres; D Company and one platoon of B Company at Reninghelst, attached to
8Yorks. A milder day, but with heavy rain overnight 11th/12th.
The bulk of the Battalion marched south-west to a camp near
Wiltshire Farm, east of Dickebusch.
Cpl. William Walker
Rossall MM (see 5th
October), who had been wounded on 20th September, re-joined the
Battalion from 34th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples; he was promoted
Sergeant.
Ptes. George Towler
Brown (see 4th August)
and David Doughty Glossop (see 4th August), both of whom
had been taken ill suffering from influenza two months previously, were
discharged from hospital and posted to 34th Infantry Base Depot at
Etaples, en route to a return to active service.
Pte. Oliver Rhodes
(see 16th January) was
evacuated to England for further medical treatment. He had suffered wounds to
his chest and back at some point, but the details of when he had been wounded
and where he had been treated in France are unknown.
Capt. Henry Kelly
VC (see 21st September)
who had been in England since being taken ill on Christmas Day 1916, returned
to France en route to re-joining 10DWR.
Capt. Henry Kelly VC |
Capt. Gilbert
Tunstill (see 11th
September) appeared before a further Army Medical Board assembled at
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Board found that, “The flat-footed condition is marked
and the foot is swollen He states there is some pain in the foot after he has
marched some distance. He has improved since his last board”. He was again
declared fit for light duty at home and instructed to re-join his Battalion; he
would re-examined in a further month.
Capt. Gilbert Tunstill |
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