Friday 21st December 1917

Front line trenches on the Montello.

Cold and dull but fine.

Pte. John Crossley (see 12^th December) died at 62^nd General Hospital at Bordighera, near Ventimiglia; he would be buried at Bordighera British Cemetery.

L.Cpl. Louis Feather (see 16^th November) and Ptes. Walter Dey (see 5^th December) and Willie Holmes (see 15^th November) all re-joined the Battalion following treatment for illness.

Pte. Spencer Buckley (see 31^st August 1916), who had been serving with 3DWR in England since having been wounded in August 1916, was transferred to the Royal Engineers and posted to the Railway Construction Troops Depot at Longmoor.