Monday 18th December 1916

Winnipeg Camp

In the evening a party was again despatched to Ypres, by train, to work with the Royal Engineers.

Pte. John Smith Hodgson (see 22^nd July) was reported as having a “dirty tunic and badly fitted equipment”; on the orders of Capt. Frank Redington MC (see 16^th December), he was confined to barracks for three days.

Pte. Cuthbert Dyer (see 25^th March) reported sick, suffering from influenza, and was admitted to hospital.

Sgt. Robert William John Morris (see 28^th November) was evacuated to England from 13^th General Hospital in Boulogne travelling onboard the Hospital Ship St. Denis; he was suffering from bronchitis, but the details of his treatment in England are unknown.

Pte. Harold Rushworth was sent home to England; at the time, although formally still serving with 10DWR, he was actually attached to 176^th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers. The circumstances under which he left the Battalion are uncertain, but it may be that he had been with the tunnelling company for some months. It appears that he had now been taken ill and may have been treated at first in France before being now posted back hospital in England. Harold Rushworth was from Shipley and had been one of the men who had enlisted in Ilkley who had been added to Tunstill’s original recruits in September 1914. He was 34 years old and unmarried when he enlisted and had been working as a house painter.

Pte. Edwin Baldwin (see 1^st November), serving with the Motor Transport Section of the Army Service Corps, was ordered to be confined to barracks for five days having been reported as ‘gambling in the barrack room’.

Pte. John Roebuck (see 28^th October) was discharged from Edmonton War Hospital, where he had spent eight weeks being treated for ICT (inflammation of connective tissue) in his buttocks and thighs. He was granted ten days leave before joining 83^rd Training Reserve Battalion at Gateshead.

Lt. Paul James Sainsbury, (see 4^th December) serving with 3DWR at North Shields was again examined by a Medical Board assembled at Tynemouth, just two weeks after his previous examination; the Board now found him fit for general service.

Lt. Paul James Sainsbury

Messrs. Martineau & Reid, solicitors, acting for the Harris family, wrote to the War Office enclosing letters of administration for the estate of Lt. Harry Harris (see 7^th December) who had been killed at Le Sars. They requested payment of any amounts outstanding.

Lt. Harry Harris