Saturday 1st December 1917

Billets at Barcon

Fine and sunny

Cpl. Thomas Butler (see 20^th September) was reported as having been “drunk at 8.30pm” and then “absent from 9.30pm until reporting at reveille (6.30am)” next day. He would then be further reported for “breaking out of guard room”. The reports of Butler’s conduct were made by A/Sgt. George William Keeling (see 20^th September) and L.Cpl. Robert Henry Arnold (see 7^th November) and by five members of the Military Police. On the orders of of Lt.Col. Francis Washington Lethbridge DSO (see 28^th November), Butler would be severely reprimanded but suffer no further punishment.

Ptes. Edward Anderson (see 10th November), Fred Hargreaves (29267) (see 6^th November), Thomas Charles Jaques (see 14^th November) and William Henry Luke (see 13^th November) were all posted from 34^th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples to re-join 10DWR.

L.Cpl. Thomas Bulcock (see 4^th September), serving in France with 8DWR, was promoted Lance Sergeant.

L.Cpl. Stanley Basil Studd (see 15^th November), serving in France with 9DWR, was admitted via 52^nd Field Ambulance to 61^st Casualty Clearing Station; he was suffering from an abscess to his lower jaw.


L.Cpl. John Thomas Carter, serving with 4^th Grenadier Guards, was killed in action in France; he was the elder brother of Pte. George Carter (see 12^th November), who was serving with 3DWR having been wounded in September.

Pte. Herbert Wood (see 28^th September), who had been in England since having been wounded in September, was posted to 3DWR at North Shields.

Lt. John Redington (see 23^rd October), who had been taken ill in July 1916 and was now employed at the Army Recruiting Office in Wolverhampton, was seconded for duty with the Ministry of National Service. 

The War Office wrote to the Infantry Records Office confirming that, having been trade tested at Woolwich, Pte. James Thomas Sagar (see 22^nd August), who had been in England since suffering fractured ribs in an accident in October 1916, was to be discharged to Class T to take up munitions work with H. Pontifex and Sons Ltd, Farringdon Works, Birmingham.

A payment of £5 16s. 4d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late L.Cpl. John Cork (see 9^th August), who had been killed in action while serving with 2DWR; the payment would go to his father, Fred.

L.Cpl. John Cork