Monday 1st
January 1917 from our correspondent in the field
The 1st
Battalion have not been celebrating the New Year today. They have moved into
the front line again at Cuinchy, north of Arras and east of Béthune. The
adjutant informed me on the telephone that: “The trenches are in a very poor
state owing to recent heavy rain and accommodation for men in Trenches is very
poor and scanty”.
The other
regular battalion of the Regiment - 2nd Battalion - is also in the front line.
They are at Berles-au-Bois, some miles south-west of Arras. Second Lieutenant G
A Anstee has returned to the unit from leave and fifty new men have joined from
base. Second Lieutenant Anstee is celebrating the granting of a Military Cross,
announced in today’s London Gazette.
Honorary Major Cressingham [X550/1/81]
The Gazette has also announced that the
battalion’s commanding officer, Second Lieutenant H S Poyntz has been awarded
the Distinguished Service Order, as has Captain Reggie Wynne. Meanwhile the
battalion’s long-serving quartermaster, Captain H M Cressingham has been promoted
to Honorary Major.
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