Thursday 15th March 1917

Eperlecques

There was a large-scale Brigade exercise “accompanied by contact patrol aeroplanes”; the exercise, which comprised of “two attacks from long distance in open formation”, continued all day and was completed about 4.30pm.

Pte. Howarth Reid (see 6^th June 1916) was appointed (unpaid) Lance Corporal.

Pte. Lewis Walton (see 12^th February), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was posted to 1DWR and, within days, would set sail with a draft from Plymouth to Bombay.

Pte. Walter Lee (see 12^th February), serving with 83^rd Training Reserve Battalion, based at Gateshead, was formally transferred to the Army Reserve Class W and released to resume his pre-war employment as a core maker for Messrs. Joseph Blakeborough & Sons, Woodhouse Works, Brighouse.

A payment of £19 0s 5d was authorised, being the amount outstanding in pay and allowances to the late Sgt. Harry Lyddington Mason (see 3^rd November); the payment would go to his father, John.

Sgt. Harry Lyddington Mason

A payment of £4 12s 4d was authorised, being the amount outstanding in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Ernest Balmforth (see 25^th September 1916) who had been killed in action in September 1916; the payment would go to his father, William.