Sunday 2nd September 1917

Bivouacs and dugouts at Chateau Segard, near the hamlet of Kruistraathoek.

At 6.46am the Battalion began 15 mile march west, via Dickebusch, Reninghelst and Abeele, to new billets near Steenvorde, where one night would be spent.

Pte. Patrick Conley (see 28^th April), serving with 83^rd Training Reserve Battalion at Gateshead, was transferred to 298^th Reserve Labour Company, Labour Corps.

Brig. Genl. Lambert (see 22^nd August) took temporary command of 23^rd Division, with Lt. Col. Barker DSO taking command of 69^th Brigade (he would be replaced next day by Lt.Col. R.S. Hart).

At home in Bradford, Sarah Ann Steward, wife of L.Cpl. Christopher Steward (see 5^th January), who had been in England since January having been wounded, gave birth to the couple’s second child. The boy, named Thomas, would live for only five days before dying as a result of ‘jaundice and convulsions’. The couple’s first son, Christopher, had died, aged two months, in August 1915.