Monday 6th August 1917

Billets between Zudausques and Boisdinghem.

For the second time in a month Pte. Leonard Hurley (see 9^th July) was reported by Cpl. George Heeley (see 23^rd July) for having a dirty rifle; on the orders of Lt. Arthur Poynder Garratt (see 15^th June) he was to be confined to barracks for two days.

Pte. Harry Jessop (I am currently unable to make a positive identification of this man), who had been officer’s servant to the late Lt. Arthur Halstead (see 31^st July), submitted a claim to 20 Francs which was owed to him, for wages, at the time of Halstead’s death. As Halstead’s pay account was now suspended following his death, there would be a (protracted) investigation into the validity of Jessop’s claim.

Pte. Herbert Burgess (see 28^th July), serving with 83^rd Training Reserve Battalion at Gateshead, was reported for ‘breaking out of his billet about 6am and remaining absent until 10pm when warned for Headquarters Guard’; he was ordered to be confined to barracks for seven days.

Pte. Fred Addy (see 27^th May), who had been posted back to England, suffering from TB, in May, appeared before an Army Medical Board in Sheffield. The Board recommended that he be formally discharged as unfit for further service.

Recently-commissioned 2Lt. Fred Dyson (see 30^th July) was married to Edith May Wilkinson; he would later serve with 10DWR.

A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. George Gelling (see 14^th May) who had been killed in January; his widow, Julia, was awarded 13s. 9d. per week.

Pte. George Gelling