Thursday 11th October 1917

Most of the Battalion in Camp (name unknown) north-west of Ypres; D Company and one platoon of B Company at Reninghelst, attached to 8Yorks. A milder day, but with heavy rain overnight 11th/12th.

The bulk of the Battalion marched south-west to a camp near Wiltshire Farm, east of Dickebusch.

Cpl. William Walker Rossall MM (see 5^th October), who had been wounded on 20^th September, re-joined the Battalion from 34^th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples; he was promoted Sergeant.

Ptes. George Towler Brown (see 4^th August) and David Doughty Glossop (see 4^th August), both of whom had been taken ill suffering from influenza two months previously, were discharged from hospital and posted to 34^th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples, en route to a return to active service.

Pte. Oliver Rhodes (see 16^th January) was evacuated to England for further medical treatment. He had suffered wounds to his chest and back at some point, but the details of when he had been wounded and where he had been treated in France are unknown. 

Capt. Henry Kelly VC (see 21^st September) who had been in England since being taken ill on Christmas Day 1916, returned to France en route to re-joining 10DWR.

Capt. Henry Kelly VC

Capt. Gilbert Tunstill (see 11^th September) appeared before a further Army Medical Board assembled at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Board found that, “The flat-footed condition is marked and the foot is swollen He states there is some pain in the foot after he has marched some distance. He has improved since his last board”. He was again declared fit for light duty at home and instructed to re-join his Battalion; he would re-examined in a further month.

Capt. Gilbert Tunstill