Monday 14th January 1918

Billets at Biadene

Training continued.

Pte. Fred Smith (23056) (see 19^th December 1916) was posted back to England; the reason for his departure is unknown, but it may have been in connection with wounds he had suffered twelve months previously. On returning to England he would be posted to Northern Command Depot at Ripon.

Pte. William Carver (see 29^th October 1917) was re-classified as being fit only for Permanent Base duties and transferred to 273^rd Employment Company at GHQ, Italy.

Lt. David Lewis Evans (see 18^th December 1917), serving with 3DWR, appeared before a further Army Medical Board assembled at Ripon. The report of the Board found that, “There is still considerable diminution in the expansion of the right lung. He states that he is still short of breath on exertion. There are no further physical signs in the chest. The hearing is very much improved and is now very little disability”. The Board instructed him fit to resume light duties with 3DWR at North Shields. He was to be re-examined in three months.

A payment of £61 4s. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Lt. Joseph Crocker (see 18^th September 1917), who had been killed in action on the night of 18^th-19^th September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Harriet.

A payment of £2 1s. 1d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. George Edward Hickson (see 20^th September 1917), who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his father, Frederick.

A payment of £2 5d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Herbert Hirst (see 20^th September 1917), who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his father, Fred.

A payment of £2 6s. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Stanley Arthur Lucas (see 20^th September 1917), who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his father, Arthur.

A payment of £4 12s. 9d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Sgt. Thomas Sheldon (see 23^rd September 1917), who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Emma.

A payment of £2 14s. 3d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Harry Stillwell (see 20^th September 1917), who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Ada.


A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Samuel Wilson (see 10^th November 1917), who had been killed in action on 7^th June; his mother, Annie, was awarded 4s. per week (later, in November 1918, increased to 5s.).