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Monday 15 July 2019

Tuesday 15th July 1919


Pte. James Austin (see 7th February), serving with 1034 Employment Company at Arquata Scrivia, was taken on to the strength of the Permanent Train Staff at no.9 Rest Camp, also at Arquata Scrivia.


Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO (see 5th June), who hed been under treatment at 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth for the wounds he had suffered in October 1918, was granted a further one month’s leave, on the expiry of which he was to return to hospital.
Maj. Robert Harwar Gill DSO
A report submitted by 21st Labour Company confirmed the exhumation and reburial of the remains of a number of men. Among them were those of 2Lt. Isidore David Marks (see 21st October 1916), L.Cpl. James Kettlewell (see 25th January 1917) and Pte. Myer Freedman MM (see 26th April 1917) who had been killed near Contalmaison in 1916. Their remains had been interred in marked graves, “End of trench, just S. of Contalmaison, 3 ¾ miles E.N.E. of Albert, Map. Ref. Sheet 57d. Square X, 16.d.6.0.”. All three, along with others, had now been exhumed and re-interred at Gordon Dump Cemetery near Pozieres.

Lt. Isidore David Marks

L.Cpl. James Kettlewell


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