Friday 2nd November 1917

Billets in the Zudausques area

A fine day. The Battalion continued its training and range practice.

Pte. John Perrin (see 24^th August), who had been away from the Battalion for ten weeks after suffering from ‘trench foot’, now re-joined.

Pte. Robert Frank Smith (25829) (see 29^th October), who had suffered a minor wound on 19^th October, was posted from 34^th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples and re-joined the Battalion. 

Pte. Harry Sugden (see 16^th January) was transferred to 69^th Trench Mortar Battery.

Ptes. John Edward Scott (see 24^th October) and Fred Smith (15149) (see 12^th September) who were serving with 3DWR, were posted back to France. However, they would not re-join 10DWR but would instead be posted to 2/7^th DWR.


Pte. Thomas George Coates (see 26^th October), who had been in England since having been wounded on 20^th September, was discharged from 2^nd Western General Hospital in Manchester and posted to Northern Command Depot at Ripon.

Pte. William Franklin (see 25^th September) who had been in England after being wounded on 20^th September, was discharged from hospital and posted to Northern Command Depot at Ripon.

Pte. Milton Wood (see 31^st October), who had joined 3DWR at North Shields the previous day, was admitted to 1^st Northern General Hospital at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, suffering from scabies.

Capt. Alfred Percy Harrison MC (see 3^rd October), who was in England having been wounded on 7^th June, appeared before a further Medical Board. The Board again concluded that he was to remain in hospital for further treatment to his injured foot, and would be re-examined in one months’ time.



Pte. Amor Green Brooke (see 5^th July 1916) was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of wounds suffered in action. Having recovered from wounds suffered in July 1916 he had been transferred to 2DWR, but, in the absence of a surviving service record it has not been possible to establish any details as to when he had been wounded for a second time.

At home in Fulham, Helen Ridley, wife of Pte. Herbert Ridley (see 31^st October), gave birth to the couple’s third child; the baby boy would be named Frederick Douglas Ridley. 

The weekly edition of the Craven Herald reported news of the fate of Pte. Jabez Wintersgill (see 20^th September) and also of the death of the father of the late Pte. Joshua Crossley (see 27^th October);

EARBY MEN MISSING 

Pte. Jabez Wintersgill, Green End Avenue, Earby, has been reported missing since Sept. 20th. He is 19 years of age.

BOLTON-BY-BOWLAND - Obituary

Mr. John Crossley, of Cottams Farm, passed away on Saturday morning last aged 53 years. Deceased had suffered for a long time on account of heart weakness. Mr. Crossley was very much respected and had very near associations with the Holden Congregational Chapel. He leaves a widow, one son and one daughter, another son having joined the army at the beginning of the war, but unfortunately contracted an illness which ended fatally. Deceased was laid to rest in the graveyard of Holden Chapel on Wednesday afternoon last, in the presence of a large number of sorrowing friends, the pastor, Mr. Knight, taking the service.