Sunday 5th May 1918

Billets at Cornedo Vicentino.

Pte. Reginald Dayson (see 26^th March ) was reported by Sgt. Middleton Busfield (see 5^th May), CQMS Hubert Charles Hoyle (see 26^th March) and Cpl. John William Baird (see 20^th September 1917)  for “losing by neglect: iron rations, entrenching tool, mess tin, mess tin cover, clasp knife and field dressing”; on the orders of Maj. William Norman Town (see 23^rd April) he would be deprived of seven days’ pay and be ordered to pay for the deficiencies. 

Pte. Charles Henry Russell (see 9^th March) was reported by Cpl. Sydney Alec Exley (see below) for ‘having dirty small arms ammunition’; on the orders of Capt. Paul James Sainsbury (see 24^th February) he would be confined to barracks for seven days.

Cpl. Sydney Alec Exley was 20 years old and from Menston, where he had worked as a pawnbroker’s assistant before the war. He had previously served with 2^nd/6^th DWR, but, in the absence of a surviving service record, I am unable to establish when he had joined 10DWR, or any further detail of his service.

Pte. Thomas Edward Laycock (see 23^rd April) was again reported as having been drunk and, on this occasion additionally as “escaping from confinement in 9^th Yorkshire Regiment guard room”; on the orders of Maj. Town (see above) he was sentenced to 28 days’ Field Punishment no.1.

2Lt. Billy Oldfield MM (see 19^th April), who had been severely wounded while serving in France with 1^st/4^th DWR, was evacuated from 14^th General Hospital at Wimereux, returning to England via Boulogne and Dover. On arrival in England he would be admitted to 2^nd London General Hospital, Chelsea.

2Lt. Billy Oldfield MM

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

A/Capt. Ernest Cyril Coke (see 15^th November 1917) was appointed Adjutant to 3DWR at North Shields.

L.Cpl. Frank Mallinson MM (see 9^th January), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was reported “absent from barracks from 10pm until seen by the Military Police in Tynemouth Road about 10.25pm”; he was severely reprimanded.


Cpl. John Henry Crawshaw (see 25^th March), serving at the Regimental Depot at Halifax, was reported as ‘absent off conducting duty from 11.55am’; he would not report back until 11.20pm the following day and would be severely reprimanded.