Saturday 9th December 1916

Front line trenches near Zouave Wood

Conditions remained relatively quiet, as on the previous days. There was a thick mist for much of the day.

L.Cpl. John William Cooper (see 20^th October) was promoted Corporal.

Pte. Thomas Manuell (see 17^th October) was admitted to 69^th Field Ambulance suffering from ‘trench fever’ and myalgia; he would subsequently be transferred to 2^nd Canadian Stationery Hospital.

Sgt. Wilfred Fletcher (see 21^st July), L.Cpl. William Hutchinson (see 16^th September) and Pte. Harry Horner (see 13^th November) departed for England on ten day’s leave.

Pte. Frank Brooks (see 25^th August), who had been severely wounded (he had had his left foot amputated) and taken prisoner by the Germans in July, was one of a number of severely wounded prisoners who returned to England in an exchange arranged with the Germans.

L.Cpl. Tom Jackson Tindall (see 16^th August) was posted from the Regimental Depot at Halifax to 83^rd Training Reserve Battalion at Gateshead.