Sunday 22nd July 1917

In close reserve with BHQ at Larch Wood (I.29.c.2.9). One Company at the Dump (I.29.c.2.4); one Company at Battersea Farm (I.23.c.7.2) and two Companies much further back at Scottish Wood near Dickebusch.

Pte. Ellis Sutcliffe (see 8^th April) was wounded, suffering relatively minor shrapnel wounds to his back; he was admitted to 5^th London Field Ambulance before being transferred via 15^th Casualty Clearing Station at Hazebrouck to 6^th General Hospital at Rouen. L.Cpl. Arthur Lund (see 8^th June) was also wounded, but the details of his initial treatment are unknown.

Overnight 22^nd/23^rd the Battalion was relieved by the 8^th Royal West Kents and moved back to Micmac Camp, between Dickebusch and Ouderdom. 

Ptes. Vernon Barker (see 2^nd January) and Sam Shuttleworth (see 20^th February) departed for England on ten day’s leave.

Pte. William Postill Taylor (see 28^th May), who had been in England for the previous two months having been wounded, was posted to Northern Command Depot at Ripon.

Pte. Victor Frank Collen (see 25^th May) who had been wounded on the Somme in July 1916 and had been in England ever since, was formally discharged from the Army, with the award of the Silver War Badge and a pension of 8s. 3d. per week.

L.Cpl. Frank Revell reported for duty with the Battalion. He was a 32 year-old married man with four children. He had first joined the Regiment in 1903 and had been serving with 2^nd Battalion when it was posted to France in August 1914. He had been posted as missing during the retirement from Wasmes on 24^th August 1914 but had “on orders, changed into civilian dress, and made for the coast”. He had managed to cross from Ostend to Folkestone on 23^rd September. He had then served with 3DWR until re-joining 2DWR in France in May 1915. His term of service had expired on 3^rd February 1916 and he had returned to England. He had then been recalled under the Military Service Acts in August 1916 and had served with 3DWR, being promoted Lance Corporal, before being posted back to France on 6^th July. He had originally been scheduled to re-join 2DWR but was instead re-posted to 10DWR.