Monday 8th October 1917

Most of the Battalion in Camp (name unknown) north-west of Ypres; D Company and one platoon of B Company remained at Berthen, attached to 8Yorks.

The Battalion remained on attachment to 2^nd Battalion Canadian Railway Troops for work in the construction of a light railway. The recent wet weather continued.

After almost a month away, having been taken ill on 10^th September, Capt. Dick Bolton (see 10^th September) re-joined the Battalion.

Capt. Dick Bolton

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

Lt. Erik Frost Helmsing (see 17^th September), who had only been with the Battalion for three weeks, left, having reported sick.


Pte. John Onion (see 4^th May), who had been in England since having been wounded in April while serving in France with 2DWR, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of his wounds; he was awarded an Army pension of £1 7s. 6d. per week.

A payment of £7 17s. 8d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Cpl. William Henry Scott (see 29^th June), who had died of wounds on 11^th June; the payment would go to his widow, Susannah.

Cpl. William Henry Scott

A payment of £2 11s. 3d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Charles Smith (29004) (see 12^th June), who had been killed in action on 7^th June; the payment would go to his widow, Ann. 

A payment of £2 2s. 8d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Isaac Wells (see 7^th June) who had been killed in action on 7^th June; the payment would go to his brother, Hector, although both parents were still alive. 

A grant of probate was issued respecting the affairs of the late 2Lt. Benjamin Owen Hunt (see 27^th June); administration of his estate, valued at £245 14s. 3d. was granted to his widow, Gertrude Marion Hunt.

2Lt. Benjamin Owen Hunt