Saturday 3rd November 1917

Billets in the Zudausques area

A wet day. The Battalion continued its training and range practice.

A/Cpl. William Atkinson (25980) (see 29^th October), L.Cpls. Roderick Harmer (see 29^th October) and John Wright Pollard (see 5^th October) and Ptes. John Henry Fidler (see 5^th October), Jack Edgar Hall (see 29^th October) and Herbert John Wicks (see 31^st October) departed for England on ten days’ leave.

Pte. Charles Simmons (see 5^th July) was reported by Sgt. Alfred Dolding (see 11^th August) as having been “dirty on parade”; on the orders of Capt. Paul James Sainsbury (see 29^th October) he would be confined to barracks for five days.

At home in Bristol Elsie May Scott, the 20 months-old daughter of Pte. Walter William Scott (see 29^th October), died from tuberculous meningitis.