Tuesday 30th October 1917

Zudausques
Training and range practice.

A wet day.

Pte. John Walton (see 7th June) was reported by Sgt. William Walker Rossall MM (see 11^th October), as having been, ‘unshaven on parade’; on the orders of Capt. John Edward Lennard Payne (see 29^th October) he would be confined to barracks for three days.

A number of men re-joined the Battalion from 34^th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples. Cpl. James Henry Howarth (see 24^th October) was re-joining after a short period in hospital; on returning he was promoted Sergeant. Ptes. Fred Morrell (see 27^th October) and John William Procter (see 27^th October) had returned to France three days previously having been in England since being wounded in action. Pte. Harry Beaumont (29306) (see 21^st August) was re-joining after spending four months in England. Other men were joining 10DWR for the first time; these were men who had previously served abroad before either being wounded or taken ill. Some of these men have been identified. Pte. James Cowie was 27 years old and from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He had been a member of the Territorial Army before the war and had been called up in February 1915 and had served in France with 1^st/5^th DWR between July and September 1916, when he had been wounded and evacuated to England. He had returned to France in February 1917 and had served two months with 2DWR before being wounded a second time, returning to England in April. Pte. William Dennison MM was a 35 year-old gas stoker from Bradford (working at the Corporation Gas Works); he was married with one daughter. He had enlisted in August 1914 having previously served in the territorial battalion. He had been posted to France to join 2DWR in January 1915 and had been promoted successively Lance Corporal, Corporal and Sergeant (January 1916). He had been awarded the Military Medal in November 1916 (circumstances unknown). He had been posted back to England (reason unknown) in December 1916 and had then served with 83^rd Training Reserve Battalion at Gateshead. On 17^th October 1917 he had been tried on a charge of “Failing to appear at the place of parade appointed by his Commanding Officer and restricting an escort whose duty it was to have him in charge”; he had been found guilty and had been reduced to the rank of Private. On joining the Battalion he was re-appointed to the rank of Corporal. Pte. John Henderson was a 35 year-old warehouseman from Hebden Bridge; he was married with one son. He had served in France with 9DWR and latterly with 47^th Broad Gauge Railway operating Company between October 1916 and April 1917, before being invalided back to England, suffering from an “ischia rectal abcess”. Pte. George Lownsborough was a 36 year-old labourer from Hull; he was married with two children. He had served in France with 2DWR from October 1916 until being wounded in April 1917. Pte. Louis Charles Preen also joined the Battalion from Etaples. He was a 26 year-old married man with one daughter and had lived in Folkestone. He had enlisted in November 1915 and had been posted to 3DWR at North Shields. He had been reported as a deserter in May 1917 and had been absent for three months before being detained in August 1917. After serving a two months detention he had now been posted to 10DWR. A number of men joined the Battalion from 34^th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples, having been posted out to France on 26^th October. Pte. Herbert Stanley Smith was a 33 year-old butcher from Linthwaite, near Huddersfield. He had served in France with 9DWR from January to April 1917 before being evacuated home suffering from ICT (inflammation of the connective tissue) in his right leg. Following treatment in England he had been posted to 3DWR in September.

Pte. Joseph Livesey (see 12^th August) was admitted via 70^th Field Ambulance to 4^th Stationary Hospital at Arques; he was suffering from a severe case of trench foot.

Pte. William Henry Luke (see 29^th October) who had only joined the Battalion the previous day, was taken ill with diarrohea; he would be admitted via 70^th Field Ambulance to 10^th Stationary Hospital at St. Omer.

Pte. Abraham Sunderland (see 18^th September), who had suffered shrapnel wounds to his right hand and knee six weeks previously, was discharged from hospital and posted to 34^th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples.

Cpl. Dennis Waller (see 22^nd August), who had deserted from 3DWR two months previously, re-joined his Battalion at North Shields and was detained in the guard room pending court martial.

A payment of £1 1s. 2d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Ernest Arthur Carter (see 13^th June) who had been killed in action on 7^th June; the payment would go to his widow, Eva.