Monday 10th December 1917

Support positions between roads 12 and 13 on the Montello.

A fine day.

Brig. Genl. Lambert (see 7^th December) visited 10DWR and declared “Range practically complete except for targets”.

Pte. Frank William Rabjohn (see 13^th November), who had been reported ‘wounded and missing’ on 20^th September but had subsequently (on 13^th November) been arrested by the Military Police near Dickebusch re-joined the Battalion under close arrest; he would be held in detention for five weeks, awaiting trial by Field General Court Martial.

Pte. George Towler Brown (see 23^rd October) was admitted to 69^th Field Ambulance suffering from a high temperature; he would be discharged to duty four days later.

Pte. George Green (22749) (see 30^th November) was reported as having been ‘dirty on CO’s parade’; he was reprimanded by Capt. Henry Kelly VC (see 3^rd December).

Pte. Robert Wilson Irving (see 19^th November), serving with 360^th Labour Company, Labour Corps, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service, following his episodes of shellshock. He was awarded a gratuity of £75 in lieu of any pension for a year, on the basis that his disability would be resolved within the year. 

A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Joe Dyson (see 6^th September), who had been killed in action on 23^rd May; his widow, Maud, was awarded 13s. 9d. per week.