Wednesday 1st November 1916

Barracks in Ypres

Working parties of 200 men each night, and smaller parties during the day, were provided each day for the next three days. There was also further training in the use of the new box respirators and “All Officers and men had them tested with lacrymosal gas”.

Pte. James Thomas Sagar (see 11^th September 1915) was posted back to England, where he would be admitted to Shorncliffe Military Hospital; it is not clear whether had been wounded or taken ill.

Pte. Vernon Barker (see 23^rd October), after being treated for a week for myalgia, was now diagnosed as suffering from influenza and was transferred from 23^rd Division Rest Station, via 10^th Casualty Clearing Station, to one of the hospitals in Wimereux.

Pte. Edwin Baldwin (see 26^th May), was transferred to the Motor Transport Section of the Army Service Corps.

Pte. George Henry Hansford (see 2^nd August), serving in France with 2DWR, was appointed (unpaid) Lance Corporal.

Cpl. Albert Joseph Acarnley (see 14^th August), who would later serve as a commissioned officer with 10DWR, was promoted Sergeant while serving with 2^nd Royal Berkshires.

A payment of £69 7s. 6d. was authorised, being the amount outstanding in pay and allowances to the late 2Lt. Geoffrey Raymond Palmer (see 29^th July), who had been killed in the actions around Munster Alley in July.

2Lt. Geoffrey Raymond Palmer

Rev. Hugh Wilfrid Todd, chaplain, arrived in France, although with which unit has not been established; he would subsequently serve as chaplain with 10DWR. Todd was 28 years old (born 7^th October 1888) and the youngest of three surviving children of Thomas and Emma Todd. Thomas Todd was a schoolmaster and his elder son, Arthur, had worked as a bank clerk but Hugh had qualified as a theology student.

Image by kind permission of Scott Flaving