Monday 27th May 1918

Support positions near Cesuna.

Pte. Albert Edward White (see 23^rd April) was reported by Sgt. Edward Arthur Myers (see 17^th May) as having a ‘dirty rifle on parade’; on the orders of Maj. William Norman Town (see 15^th May) he would be confined to barracks for seven days.

Pte. William Atkinson (25980) (see 2^nd April) was transferred from 62^nd General Hospital at Bordighera to hospitalin Marseilles (details unknown); he was suffering from gonnorhea.

Pte. Ernest John Robbins (see 5^th October 1917) was discharged from hospital in Italy and posted to the Base Depot at Arquata Scrivia; it is not clear when, or for what reason, he had been admitted to hospital.

2Lt. Donald Roy Auty (see 27^th April), serving on attachment with11^th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, was taken prisoner of war after the Battalion was involved in fierce fighting near Concevreux (north-west of Rheims). The Battalion was engaged in fierce fighting throughout the day and overnight, 27^th to 28^th, became enveloped and surrounded by the German advance. It was reported that more than 400 officers and men had become casualties; the majority of them were missing, presumed taken prisoner. 2Lt. Auty subsequently gave an account of what had happened to him.

L.Cpl. Ernest Gee (see 14^th May), who had been absent without leave from 3DWR at North Shields for six weeks, was found guilty of “deserting His Majesty’s service” and sentenced to 28 days’ detention and loss of 28 days’ pay.

Sgt. Rennie Hirst (see 25^th March) was discharged from hospital in Glasgow; he would have two weeks’ leave before reporting to Northern Command Depot at Ripon.

Pte. Ernest Franklin (25969) (see 21^st April), who had been suffering from ‘trench fever’, was discharged from the Voluntary Auxiliary Hospital in Cirencester and posted to the Regimental Depot at Halifax.

A payment of £1 15s. 10d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. James Buckley Kenworthy (see 21^st March), who had been officially missing in action since 7^th June 1917; the payment would go to his father, Charles.


An increase was authorised in the pension award in the case of the late Pte. Charles Smith (29004) (see 24^th December 1917), who had been killed in action in June 1917; his widow, Ann, was to be awarded £1 2s. 8d. per week instead of the 18s. 9d. which she had received hitherto.