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 weather was fine early but turned wet by late morning,
becoming colder and wetter as the day progressed.
The Battalion remained on attachment to 2nd
Battalion Canadian Railway Troops for work in the construction of a light
railway.
Medical Officer Capt. Cecil Berry
(see 3rd September) left
the Battalion to join 69th Field Ambulance and was replaced
by Capt. Leslie Fraser Eiloart Jeffcoat,
who had previously served with the same unit. Jeffcoat was a New
Zealander; he was 28 years old and the son of Dr. Frederick Howard Jeffcoat of
Dunedin. He had originally served in Mesopotamia, where he had been taken ill
and had spent time in hospital in India before joining 69th Field
Ambulance.
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| Image by kind permission of the Trustees of the DWR Museum |
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Capt. Leslie Fraser Eiloart Jeffcoat (left), pictured with 2Lt. Cyril Edward Agar.
Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton.
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L.Cpl. Thomas Riding
(see 20th September) was
admitted to 71st Field Ambulance suffering from ‘PUO’ (pyrexia of
unknown origin); he would be discharged to duty after eight days.
Pte. Harry Simpson
(see 28th June) departed
for England on ten days’ leave.
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