Wednesday 7th February 1917

Winnipeg Camp

There was no change in the weather and the routine of training and working parties continued.

LCpl. Thomas Arthur Sturdy (see 8^th January) was promoted Corporal. 

Pte. Patrick Sweeney (see 11^th January), who had joined the Battalion a month earlier, was admitted to 69^th Field Ambulance with a diagnosis of gonorrhoea.

L.Cpl. Thomas Arthur Sturdy (see 8^th January) was promoted Corporal; Pte. Walter Appleby (see 6^th December 1916) was appointed Lance Corporal; Ptes. George Heeley (see 17^th June 1916) and Thomas Robinson (16490) MM (see 6^th December 1916) were appointed (unpaid) Lance Corporal.

RSM John Kearns (see 1^st September 1916), serving with 15^th Training Reserve Battalion at Brocton Camp, was transferred to 21^st Officer Cadet Battalion, based at Twezeldown Camp, near Fleet in Hampshire.

Lt. Cecil Edward Merryweather (see 15^th January), currently on home service with the RFA, appeared before a further Medical Board at the Military Hospital at Ripon. The Board found him fit for general service.

Cpl. William Johnson Simpson (see 12^th October 1915), who had served in France with 12^th West Yorks since September 1915, was posted to England to begin a course of officer training; once commissioned he would serve with 10DWR.

William Leach (see 12^th August 1916), who had been discharged from the Army due to wounds in August 1916, had his Army pension reduced from 25s. per week to 12s. 6d. per week. 

William Leach

Image by kind permission of Andy Wade and MenOfWorth

A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Francis Herbert Maltby (see 21^st October 1916), who had been killed in action in July 1916; his widowed mother, Sarah, was awarded 5s. per week.

Pte. Francis Herbert Maltby