[Insert: two photographs, one of a sign for Beranfay Wood, with pencil caption 'Photographed February 1919'] wounded men. 21 February – 8 March 1917 Nothing of interest to report on this front ([illegible]) 9 March 1917 Applied for three months rest feeling I badly needed it. 9 June 1917 Passed fit by medical board at Portsmouth. Am told to wait for vacancy. 23 July 1917 After four months leave, three of which were on medical certificate, I arrive in France again & take over command of 56th Division which is at rest at EPERLECQUE about seven miles north west of St Omer. General Hull, who handed over to me, had to go home for an operation. The Commander-in-Chief's Military Secretary told me that General Hull was to be given command of the division as soon as he was pronounced fit and that I should be appointed to another. I was lucky in getting a division so soon again &