Monday 5th November 1917

Billets in the Zudausques area.

The Battalion continued its training and range practice.

Brig. Genl. Lambert (see 13^th October) inspected the recent new drafts which had joined the Battalion.

L.Cpl. Frank Wood (see 14^th October) reverted, at his own request, to the rank of Private.

Pte. William Frederick Ackrill (see 28^th July), serving in France with 2DWR, was appointed Acting Lance Corporal (paid); his appointment would be confirmed as permanent on 21^st December. 

Capt. Bob Perks DSO (see 15^th October) appeared before a further Army Medical Board assembled at Tynemouth. The Board found him fit for general service and instructed him to re-join 3DWR at North Shields.

Capt. Bob Perks DSO

Image by kind permission of Janet Hudson

Pte. Augustus Edgar Stone (see 26^th September) appeared before an Army Medical Board at Evington Military Hospital, Leicester. The Board found that he had been taken ill in September, but had had a previous episode of nephritis 18 months previously and had suffered lead poisoning 15 years previously. He was declared unfit for military service, his previous condition having been aggravated by his military service. However, it was also found that “he is not handicapped in civil employment”. He was awarded a payment of 2s. per week for the next three months, but nothing further thereafter.

The War Office replied to the recent letter from Mrs. Angelina Pereira, mother of the late Capt. Adrian O’Donnell Pereira (see 29^th October), regarding the effects of her late son:

“I am directed to acquaint you that no further effects of late Captain A. O’D. Pereira, West Riding Regiment, have been placed at the disposal of this Department. It is observed that the articles referred to by you would probably have been taken into action by the deceased and I have to acquaint you, with regret, that there is no record of the recovery of his body in this Department so that it is feared that it must be assumed that any articles not already recovered have been lost. I am to add that no information is forthcoming to show under what circumstances the wrist watch in leather case received by you was recovered, but it is presumed that it was found in the Officer’s kit and was not taken into action by him”.

Capt. Adrian O'Donnell Pereira