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Sunday, 19 November 2017

Tuesday 20th November 1917

Billets at Carpaneta, near Gazzo.
Starting at 9.35am on a fine but cooler day the Battalion marched a further thirteen miles east via Castel d’Ario, Nogara and Sanguinetto to Concamerise.

Pte. Joseph Crabtree (see 3rd September 1916), serving with 2nd/5thDWR, died of wounds following an attack by the Battalion near the village of Havrincourt, south-west of Cambrai; he is buried at Metz-en-Couture Communal Cemetery British Extension.
Image by kind permission of Andy Wade and MenOfWorth

Ptes. John Arthur Cole (see 29th July 1916) and Harry Exley (see 11th September), serving with 2nd/6th DWR, were both killed in action as the Battalion attacked near the village of Havrincourt, south-west of Cambrai. It would appear that their bodies were initially identified and buried but the site of their graves would be lost in subsequent fighting and both are now commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial, Louverval.
2Lt. Fred Dyson (see 6th November) was posted to France; however, 10DWR having departed for Italy, it would be a further four weeks before he actually reported for duty with the Battalion.
Pte. Joseph Leonard Holmes (see 26th September), who was in England having been wounded on 20th September, was discharged from hospital and posted to Northern Command Depot at Ripon.
Pte. Willie Jackson (see 18th September), who had been in Britain for the previous two months after suffering from trench fever, was posted to 3DWR at North Shields. 
Pte. Arthur Wood (29040) (see 25th September), who had been in England since having been wounded on 20th September, was discharged from hospital and granted ten days’ leave before reporting to Northern Command Depot at Ripon.
QMS Joseph Henry (see 7th July), who had been serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was was formally discharged from the Army as being no longer physically fit for service on account of ill health; he was suffering from tachycardia (mild). He would be awarded the Silver War Badge and an Army pension. 
Lt. Sydney Charles Ernest Farrance (see 5th September), who had completed an application for a permanent commission in the Indian Army, was instructed to attend at the India Office on 3rd December to be medically examined for fitness for his commission.
2Lt. Godfrey Isaacs (see 17th July) who was in Bowhill Auxiliary Hospital in Selkirk, having been wounded on 7th June, wrote to the War Office requesting consideration for a wound gratuity.  
A payment of £3 8s. 2d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. John William Clark (20782) (see 12th June), who had died of wounds on 12th June; the payment would go to his mother, Rosanna. A parcel of his personal effects would also be sent to his mother; this consisted of, “jack knife, pair of spectacles, disc, cap badge, 2 handkerchiefs, postcards, coin (10 centimes)”.


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