Tuesday 21st August 1917

Billets near Moulle.

Another fine, hot day

Training intensified further with rehearsal of a Brigade attack, “particular stress being laid on the independent attack by platoons on strong points met with during an advance”.

Battalion Medical Officer Capt. Cecil Berry (see 19^th June) departed for England on ten days’ leave; Capt. Stanhope Bayne Jones was temporarily attached from 69^th Field Ambulance to replace him. Bayne Jones was a 28 year-old American volunteer doctor who had arrived in France in June.

2Lt. Harold Sykes Holroyd (see 7^th March), who had spent four months with 10DWR in the winter of 1916-17 before returning to England to join the Royal Naval Air Service as a probationary Flying Officer, was killed in a flying accident in Lincolnshire. He would buried at Outlane (Bethel) United Methodist Chapel.

Pte. Harry Beaumont (29306) (see 22^nd June), who had been in England for the previous two months, was posted to 3DWR at North Shields. 

Pte. James Hildred Bray appeared before an Army Medical Board in Colchester, which recommended his discharge from the Army as being unfit due to nephritis. Bray had previously served with 10DWR but the details of his active service are unclear due to the incomplete nature of his surviving service record. What is known is that he had attested in August 1916, aged 21, at which time he was living in Meltham, near Huddersfield, and working as a fireman. He had served in France with 10DWR but when he had been posted overseas and when he had returned to England are both unknown.

Pte. Arthur Lumb (see 6^th May), who had had his right leg amputated following an accidental gunshot wound suffered in April, appeared before an Army Medical Board at Roehampton, which recommended that he be discharged from the Army.

Trooper Claude Darwin (see 14^th August), serving in Egypt with 1^st Field Squadron, Engineers, Anzac Mounted Division, was discharged from 14^th Australian General Hospital at Abassia and posted to a training unit at Moascar. He was the brother of Tunstill recruit, Pte. Tom Darwin (see 14^th August), who was back in England having been wounded on 7^th June.