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.
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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.
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