A fine and sunny day.
Pte. Ernest Townsend
(see 22nd March) was
admitted to 70th Field Ambulance, with a mild case of ‘trench foot’.
Sgt. John Stephenson
(see 11th August) departed
on ten days’ leave to the UK.
Pte. Erwin Wilkinson (see 9th
August), who had been in hospital for ten days suffering from entiritis,
was discharged and re-joined the Battalion.
Lt. Col. Robert Raymer (see 16th August),
current CO 10DWR and his replacement, Maj. Francis
Washington Lethbridge (see 16th
August), along with other officers, dined with Brig. Genl. Lambert (see 16th August). Lethbridge would assume command of the
Battalion next day and would be promoted Acting Lieutenant Colonel.
Pte. Richard Swallow (see 11th
May), serving in France with 2DWR, was admitted to 38th Field
Ambulance suffering from “I.C.T.” (inflammation of the connective tissue) to
his left thigh; he would be transferred, on 29th August, to 6th
Stationary Hospital at Frevant. Form there, after two days, he would be
transferred via 1st Australian General Hospital at Rouen to 2nd
Convalescent Depot, also at Rouen.
Pte. John Anderson Mitchell
(see 17th December 1916), serving in France with Machine Gun
Corps, departed for England on ten days’ leave.
Pte. Edward Smith
(12262) (see 29th June), who had been posted back to the
Battalion in June, was posted back to England “for employment under the special
agricultural programme as an agriculturalist”.
Pte. Fred Morrell
(see 28th May), who had
been in England since 28th May, having been wounded in action, was
posted to 3DWR at North Shields, en route to a return to active service.
Pte. Frank Gunson (see 6th October 1916),
who had been transferred to the Northumberland Fusiliers, after having been wounded in October 1916 while serving with 10DWR, was formally discharged from
the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of sickness. He was
suffering from ‘D.A.H’ (D.A.H. was Disordered Action of the Heart' otherwise
known as 'Soldier's Heart' or 'Effort Syndrome'); he was assessed as having
suffered a 20% disability and was awarded the Silver War Badge and an Army
pension of 5s. 6d. per week.
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