Sunday 28th October 1917

Zudausques

A fine day.

Training and range practice.

Orders were issued to 23^rd Division to prepare at short notice; “The Division complete will be in readiness to move by rail forthwith; destination unknown”. These preparations were ordered in response to a crisis on the Italian Front which had seen two Italian armies routed by a large-scale Austrian attack.

Pte. Leonard Briggs (see 23^rd October), who had only re-joined the Battalion five days earlier following ten days’ treatment for conjunctivitis, again reported sick. He was admitted first to 70^th Field Ambulance and then transferred to 10^th Stationary Hospital at St. Omer, suffering from influenza.

Pte. Tom Midgley (see 22^nd March) was reported by L.Sgt. Jonathan Richardson Sunderland (3^rd October) as having been “dirty on 3.30pm parade”; on the orders of Capt. Henry Kelly VC (see 15^th October) he was to be confined to barracks for three days.


Ptes. Will Lee (see 18^th October) and Leonard Wilby (see 17^th October), who had been in hospital since having been wounded earlier in the month, were discharged from hospital and posted to 3^rd Convalescent Depot at Le Treport, en route to re-joining 10DWR (date and details unknown).
Pte. Alfred Henry Dobby (see 20^th September), who had been wounded on 20^th September, was discharged from 3^rd Convalescent Depot at Le Treport and posted to one of the Infantry Base Depots (details unknown); he would subsequently (date and details unknown) be transferred to the Labour Corps.
Capt. William Norman Town (see 16^th April) arrived in France en route to joining 10DWR.

Ptes. Thomas Grady (see 18^th May 1916) and John William Smith (11986) (see 18^th May 1916), serving on Permanent Base Duties with 8^th Division, were transferred to the Labour Corps.