Thursday 9th August 1917

Billets between Zudausques and Boisdinghem.

At 6pm the Battalion marched five miles north-east to new billets near Moulle; being caught in a heavy thunderstorm en route. A further two weeks’ training would be conducted from here.

Pte. Albert Moore (see 28^th June) was again in trouble, as he had been on a number of occasions. He was reported by Sgt. Joseph Bona (see 18th May) and Cpl. William Foulds (see 16^th March) as having a “dirty rifle on parade”; on the orders of Capt. Adrian O’Donnell Pereira (see 26^th July), he was to be confined to barracks for three days.

Pte. Erwin Wilkinson (see 31^st January) was admitted via 70^th Field Ambulance to 23^rd Divisional Rest Station, suffering from entiritis.

After spending two months in hospital and a further five months at 34^th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples, having been wounded in January, Pte. Willie Holmes (see 25^th March) re-joined the Battalion.

Pte. Joseph McDermott (see 7^th June), who had suffered serious wounds to his right leg on 7^th June, was discharged from 2^nd Canadian General Hospital at Le Treport and posted to 34^th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples, en route to a return to active service.

Pte. Rowland Firby (see 6^th June), who had been in England for the previous two months, was sufficiently recovered to be posted to Northern Command Depot at Ripon.

Pte. Ernest Fozard (see 13^th June), who had been in England for two months having been wounded on 7^th June, was posted to 3DWR at North Shields, en route to a return to active service.

L.Cpl. John Cork (see 15^th July), who had been wounded in January while serving with 10DWR, was killed in action while serving with 2DWR. He was one of four other ranks who were killed, along with 2Lt. Wilfred Thomas Wood, during a raid on the German lines near Pelves, east of Arras. His body was not recovered and he is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.

L.Cpl. John Cork

Trooper Claude Darwin (see 1^st July), serving in Egypt with 1^st Field Squadron, Engineers, Anzac Mounted Division, who had been in hospital since 9^th June suffering from an abcess to his neck, was transferred from the Citadel General Hospital in Cairo to 14^th Australian General Hospital at Abassia. He was the brother of Tunstill recruit, Pte. Tom Darwin (see 1^st July), who was back in England having been wounded on 7^th June.