Monday 12th March 1917

Eperlecques

A warm and muggy day, which later turned very wet. Training continued in the Brigade training area.

L.Cpl. Harry Waddington (see 19th June 1915) was promoted Corporal (and Signaller).

Cpl. Fred Swale (see 10th March) completed his application for a temporary commission. 

Cpl. Fred Swale

Image by kind permission of Joan Rigg and family

Pte. Joseph Barnes (see 11^th January) reported sick and would be admitted to 7^th General Hospital at St. Omer with suspected german measles. Pte. Herbert Newton (see 16^th January) reported sick suffering from scabies and would be admitted to 4^th Stationary Hospital at Arques.

Capt. Hugh William Lester MC (see 11^th February), who had spent the previous month on temporary duty with 69^th Brigade Headquarters, was transferred to duty at 23^rd Division HQ.

 

image by kind permission of the Trustees of the DWR Museum

The Supplement to the London Gazette published notice of the award of the Military Medal to Pte. Joseph Dobson (see 5^th January), who was in hospital in England having been wounded in the German shelling of Ypres in January; the circumstances under which Dobson had earned the award are unknown.

(Acting) Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Galbraith Buckle MC (see 4^th March), who had spent two months with 10DWR in the Summer of 1916, and was now commanding 2^nd Northants, was wounded in head by a sniper whilst walking the line at Bouchavesnes, but remained at duty.

 

(Acting) Lt. Col. Christopher Galbraith Buckle MC

2Lt. George Reginald Percy MC (see 1^st January), who had been among Tunstill’s original company but had been granted a commission with the Royal Engineers in June 1915, married Edith Ella Webb at Twickenham Parish Church.

2Lt. George Reginald Percy MC (back right)

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