Sunday 18th November 1917

In billets at Sacca.

Another sunny day after a very cold start to the morning. The Battalion, along with the whole of 69^th Brigade, marched four miles south-west to Sarginesco. Pte. Harold Charnock (see 14^th November) recalled that, “The object of this short march was to get the Division together for their march up country”. 

Pte. James Butterworth (see 5^th October) was reported by Sgt. William Henry Mears (see 16^th November) as having been, ‘unshaven on parade’; he was reprimanded by Capt. John Edward Lennard Payne (see 16^th November).

Cpl. Harold Best (see 13^th October) re-joined the Battalion; he had spent a month in hospital before being discharged on 11^th November and had now ‘caught up’ with the Battalion having travelled separately to Italy.

Pte. Thomas Walter Mellin (see 27^th August), serving in France with 9DWR, was posted to 34^th Infantry Base Depot at Etaples, en route to returning to England. He had been identified as a ‘skilled ploughman’ and would return to England four days later to be employed on agricultural work under War Office orders.