Tuesday 20th November 1917

Billets at Carpaneta, near Gazzo.

Starting at 9.35am on a fine but cooler day the Battalion marched a further thirteen miles east via Castel d’Ario, Nogara and Sanguinetto to Concamerise.


Pte. Joseph Crabtree (see 3^rd September 1916), serving with 2^nd/5^thDWR, died of wounds following an attack by the Battalion near the village of Havrincourt, south-west of Cambrai; he is buried at Metz-en-Couture Communal Cemetery British Extension.

Image by kind permission of Andy Wade and MenOfWorth

Ptes. John Arthur Cole (see 29^th July 1916) and Harry Exley (see 11^th September), serving with 2^nd/6^th DWR, were both killed in action as the Battalion attacked near the village of Havrincourt, south-west of Cambrai. It would appear that their bodies were initially identified and buried but the site of their graves would be lost in subsequent fighting and both are now commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial, Louverval.

2Lt. Fred Dyson (see 6^th November) was posted to France; however, 10DWR having departed for Italy, it would be a further four weeks before he actually reported for duty with the Battalion.

Pte. Joseph Leonard Holmes (see 26^th September), who was in England having been wounded on 20^th September, was discharged from hospital and posted to Northern Command Depot at Ripon. 

Pte. Arthur Wood (29040) (see 25^th September), who had been in England since having been wounded on 20^th September, was discharged from hospital and granted ten days’ leave before reporting to Northern Command Depot at Ripon. 

Lt. Sydney Charles Ernest Farrance (see 5^th September), who had completed an application for a permanent commission in the Indian Army, was instructed to attend at the India Office on 3^rd December to be medically examined for fitness for his commission.

2Lt. Godfrey Isaacs (see 17^th July) who was in Bowhill Auxiliary Hospital in Selkirk, having been wounded on 7^th June, wrote to the War Office requesting consideration for a wound gratuity.  

A payment of £3 8s. 2d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. John William Clark (20782) (see 12^th June), who had died of wounds on 12^th June; the payment would go to his mother, Rosanna. A parcel of his personal effects would also be sent to his mother; this consisted of, “jack knife, pair of spectacles, disc, cap badge, 2 handkerchiefs, postcards, coin (10 centimes)”.