Thursday 1st August 1918

Billets at Cereda and Grumo.

The Battalion was engaged in training and on the rifle range.

Pte. Simpson Phillips (see 30^th May) was reported by Cpl. Reginald Robinson (see 17^th May) as “absent off parade from 8pm until found in his billet at 9.45pm; on the orders of Maj. Edward Borrow DSO (see 31^st July) he would undergo seven days’ Field Punishment no.1.

Cpl. Alexander Wallace (see 3^rd June) was admitted via 71^st Field Ambulance to 62^nd General Hospital at Bordighera, near Ventimiglia; he was suffering from diarrhoea.

Cpl. Horace Dewis MM (see 1^st April), serving with the RAF, was appointed Acting Sergeant (unpaid).

2Lt. Arthur Lilley (see 22^nd June), in training in England with the RAF, was promoted Lieutenant (Observer). 

Pte. Sidney Best (see 10^th July 1917), who had been wounded in July 1917, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service.

A payment of £10 4s. was authorised, being the part of the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Walton Thomas (see 12^th April), who had been killed in action in April while serving with 1^st/7^th DWR; the payment would go to his father, John.