Tuesday 8th August 1916

Peake Wood

The Battalion was relieved from 10am by 13^th Royal Scots and began a move which, over the next ten days, would take them to a brief period of rest.  The Battalion first marched eleven miles via Becourt, Albert, Millencourt and Lavieville to Bresle, arriving there at 3.30 pm. Billeting parties had departed earlier and on the instructions of the Town Major they had arranged accommodation in a combination of billets in town and in bivouacs in the surrounding area.

A Medical Board convened at 1^st Southern General Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham declared that 2Lt. Cecil Charles Hart (see 2^nd August) who had been wounded in the fighting around Munster Alley, would be unfit for duty for at least a month.

Lt. Thomas Beattie, (see 5^th August) who had been wounded in the left shoulder by shrapnel a few days earlier while serving with 9DWR was transferred from no.2 Red Cross Hospital, Rouen to no.2 Western General Hospital in Manchester; the operation carried out three days earlier having proved unsuccessful, he would require further specialist treatment.

Proceedings began in settling the affairs of Lt. Frederick Hird (see 29^th July) who had been killed at Munster Alley. It was reported that he was not known to have left a will and that his next of kin was Mrs. F.Hird (wife), Escombe, Hadlow Down, Buxted, East Sussex. This was actually the home address of his brother Frank Hird.