Monday 7th January 1918

Billets at Biadene

Pte. Clarence Hubert Bolt (see 7^th April 1917) was reported by Sgt. Harry Holmes MM (see 17^th December 1917) as having been “not washed and unshaven on 8.45am parade”; on the orders of Capt. Paul James Sainsbury (see 3^rd November 1917) he was to be confined to barracks for five days.

Pte. John Bundy (see 29^th October 1917) was reported by L.Sgt. Jonathan Richardson Sunderland (see 4^th January) as having been “dirty on 8am parade”; on the orders of Capt. Paul James Sainsbury (see 3^rd November 1917) he was to be confined to barracks for three days.

Pte. Lancelot Johnson (see 19th November 1917) was reported by Sgt. John William Wardman MM (see 5^th January) as having been “late on parade”; on the orders of Capt. John Edward Lennard Payne MC (see 4^th December 1917) he was to be confined to barracks for five days.

Capt. Gilbert Tunstill (see 5^th January) appeared before a further Army Medical Board assembled at Tynemouth. The Board found that, “The condition remains much the same. The foot swells up occasionally and he gets pain in it”. He was again declared fit for light duty at home and instructed to re-join 3DWR; he would re-examined in a further two months.

Pte. John James Cowling (see 24^th August 1917), who had been discharged from the Army four months previously due to wounds, wrote to the War Office requesting that they send him the Silver War Badge which he had been granted but which he had not yet received.