Saturday 27th July 1918

The Battalion was engaged in training and on the rifle range.

2Lt. Alfred Ernest Pass (known as ‘Alf’) (see 17^th November) reported for duty with the Battalion.

It was during the stay at Grumo that a number of photographs were taken which survive from the album collected by Capt. Dick Bolton MC (see 5^th July).  (Images by kind permission of Henry Bolton).

Battalion Chaplain, Rev. Hugh Wilfrid Todd (see 5^th July); 2Lt. Cyril Edward Agar (see 14^th May) and Capt. Bolton.

Battalion Adjutant, Capt. Leonard Norman Phillips MC (see 4^th May), with his groom, Pte. George Douggan; he was an original member of the Battalion and had enlisted in 1914 aged 23 while living in Greengates, Bradford.

The Battalion band, including Capt. Phillips and 2Lt. Agar (seated second and fourth from left).

NCO’s of the Battalion, including CQMS Frank Stephenson (see 5^th January), seated at front.

Unidentified

Pte. Ernest Taylor (29168) (see 25^th July), who had been severely wounded two days previously while serving in France with 1^st/6^th DWR, died of his wounds at 3^rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station at Esquelbecq, north-west of Poperinghe. He would be buried at the adjacent military cemetery.

Pte. Dennis Waller (see 5^th July), serving in France with 2DWR, was appointed (unpaid) Lance Corporal.

Pte. Edwin Wood (see 17^th June), serving in France with 5DWR, was evacuated to England having suffered wounds to his left foot (details unknown).

Pte.  Arthur Wood (29040) (see 18^th March), also serving in France with 5DWR, was posted back to England (reason unknown). 

Pte. John Stenson (see 3^rd July) was transferred from the Regimental Depot in Halifax to Northern Command Depot at Ripon, where he was admitted to the Camp Hospital for further treatment for the shrapnel wounds he had suffered in September 1917.