Tuesday 6th March 1917

Eperlecques

The day dawned bright and clear, but very cold, conditions deteriorated later, with some sleet and snow showers. The focus of training moved to the Brigade training area.

Pte. Isaac Robinson (see 6^th September 1916) was reported by 2Lt. Arthur Neill (see 23^rd January) and Sgt. William Edmondson Gaunt (see 5^th March) as having “dirty ammunition on parade”; on the orders of Capt. John Edward Lennard Payne (see 1^st March) he was to be confined to barracks for three days.

Pte. John Ellis (see 1^st March) was admitted to 4^th Stationary Hospital at Arques, for treatment for myopia; he would be discharged to duty after seven days.

Pte. Edward Greenhalgh (see 11^th February) was admitted to hospital (cause unknown) but would be discharged to duty after just two days.

Cpl. George Wallace Fricker (see 20^th January), who had been away from the Battalion since January 1916, now re-joined. He had been posted out from England on 27^th January and had spent six weeks at 34^th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples.

Capt. James Christopher Bull (see 17^th February), who had left the Battalion in September 1916, suffering from paratyphoid, but had recently been declared fit for general service, returned to France en route to re-joining the Battalion.

 

Capt. James Christopher BUll

Image by kind permission of the Trustees of the DWR Museum

Three new subalterns arrived in France en route to joining 10DWR, having been commissioned six weeks earlier. They were 2Lts. Andrew Aaron Jackson (see 25^th January), Arthur Lilley (see 25^th January) and Thomas Arnold Woodcock (see 25^th January). 

Pte. Irvine Clark (see 6^th February), one of Tunstill’s original recruits, but who had been in England since being wounded in July 1916, returned to France; however, he did not re-join 10DWR, but was instead posted to 8DWR.


A payment of £13 10s 2d was authorised, being the amount outstanding in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Michael Davis (see 17^th October 1916), who had died of wounds in October 1916; the payment would be divided in four shares between his four sisters Ellen, Mary, Kate and Elizabeth (she was married and was Mrs. Donovan).

A payment of £4 2s 4d was authorised, being the amount outstanding in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Harold Schofield Hanson (see 24^th December 1916) who had died of “shrapnel wound to the right arm and pleurisy”; the payment would go to his father, Joe.

A pension award was made in respect of the late Pte. William Mitchell (see 5^th July 1916), who had been officially missing in action since July 1916; his mother, Susannah, was awarded 5s. per week.