Tuesday 23rd October 1917

Zudausques

Another very wet morning.

Training and range practice.

Pte. Leonard Briggs (see 13^th October) re-joined the Battalion following ten days’ treatment for conjunctivitis.

Pte. George Towler Brown (see 11^th October) re-joined the Battalion from 34^th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples. 

Pte. Harry Robinson (see 16^th October), who had left the Battalion three weeks previously having suffered a sprained ankle, re-joined from 34^th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples.

2Lt. Tom Hawson (see 10^th October), who had arrived in France two weeks previously, reported for duty with the Battalion. 

A week after an incident in the front line in which he “fell over an old rifle with a fixed bayonet protruding from the ground, causing a minor wound to his left thigh” Cpl. William Foulds (see 16^th October) was admitted to 69^th Field Ambulance for treatment to the injury. He had developed an infection in the wound and would be transferred to 10^th Stationary Hospital at St. Omer.

L.Cpl. Albert Edward White (see 11^th September) was admitted to 69^th Field Ambulance, suffering from “I.C.T.” (inflammation of the connective tissue) to his left knee; he would be discharged and return to duty after six days.

Sgt. Lionel Vickers (see 17^th October), who had been wounded on 20^th September, was sufficiently recovered to be posted to 34^th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples, en route to a return to active service.

Pte. Arthur Cerenza King (see 20^th September), who had been wounded on 20^th September, was transferred from 3^rd Convalescent Depot at Le Treport to 34^th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples. However, after just five days he would be transferred to 6^th Convalescent Depot, also at Etaples, on account of his wounds.

Pte. Harry Clay (see 19^th October), who had suffered multiple shrapnel wounds four days previously, was evacuated to England from 20^th General Hospital at Camiers, travelling onboard the Hospital Ship Stad Antwerpen.

Lt. John Redington (see 1^st July), who had been taken ill in July 1916 and was now employed at the Army Recruiting Office in Wolverhampton, appeared before a further Medical Board. The Board found him permanently unfit for active service on the grounds that “he suffers from constipation alternating with diarrohea”. He was instructed to continue his duties at Recruiting Office in Wolverhampton.

A payment of £2 3s. 11d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Herbert Hodgkins (see 9^th June), who had been killed in action on 9^th June; the payment would go to his father, Joseph. A package of his personal effects was also returned, comprising of, “disc, cigarette case, photos”.