Saturday 30th March 1918

Billetted in huts at Granezza

It was around this time that news was received that a sum of 300 Francs had been presented by Madame Coquet in commemoration of the retaking by the Battalion of the village of Veldhoek in September 1917; the amount was to be expended in the purchase of a Silver Bugle.

The present whereabouts of the Veldhoek Bugle are unknown

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

Maj. Edward Borrow DSO (see 15^th February) left the Battalion to undertake a senior officer’s training course.

Maj. Edward Borrow DSO

Pte. John William Mallinson (see 2^nd March) was reported on a charge (details unknown) and would be ordered by Lt.Col. Francis Washington Lethbridge DSO (see 26^th March) to be confined to barracks for seven days.

Pte. Sidney John Rainbow (see 22^nd March) was reported by Cpl. Arthur Lee MM (see 22nd March) for “slackness on guard mounting”; on the orders of Lt. Thomas Beattie (see 18th March) he was to be confined to barracks for five days.

Pte. George Green (22749) (see 3^rd March) was discharged from 29^th Stationary Hospital at Cremona and transferred to the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albano.

Pte. Bertie Constantine (see 5^th May 1917), serving in France with 2^nd/4^thDWR, was transferred to 1^st/7^thDWR.

Sgt. John Stewart (see 17^th December 1917), who had been in England since having been wounded in October, was posted back to France. He was to have joined 9DWR but on arrival he would be reclassified as fit only for base duty and would be posted to 3^rd Infantry Base Depot at Etaples.

Lt. George Stuart Hulburd (see 1^st February) was posted for duty in the orderly room at the Officers Command Depot, Eastbourne.