Thursday 10th January 1918

Billets at Biadene

Cpl. John William Pennells (see 3^rd December 1917) was reprimanded by Lt.Col. Francis Washington Lethbridge DSO (see 8^th January) having been reported by 2Lt. Edwin Everingham Ison (see 16th November 1917) and CSM Ernest James Odell (see 8^th September 1917) for, “slackness whilst in charge of a billet guard”.

Sgt. John Stephenson (see 28th November 1917) was briefly admitted to 70^th Field Ambulance (details unknown).

Pte. Horace Trinder (see 29^th October 1917) was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance and 24^th Casualty Clearing Station to 62^nd General Hospital, suffering from pneumonia.


CSM Edward George John Cooke (see 27^th September 1917), who had been in England since having been wounded in September 1917, was discharged from 1^st Northern General Hospital in Newcastle and posted to Northern Command Depot at Ripon.

Pte. William Kay (see 17^th June 1917) who had been in England having suffered severe wounds to his abdomen and right thigh on 7^th June 1917, appeared before an Army Medical Board which recommended that he be discharged as no longer physically fit for service.

Lt. John Charles Brison Redfearn (see 30^th July 1917), who had been under medical treatment in England for trench fever since September 1916, wrote to the War Office requesting a post as “an Instructor in Topography and Military Map-Reading at a cadet centre or school. He had, in early 1917, been attached to the Ordnance Survey at Southampton, before his health had deteriorated. He also expressed his concern about a possible posting to the north of England because of the effect the climate might have on his health.

A payment of £43 9s. 5d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. William Denby (see 20^th September 1917), who had been killed in action on 20^th September; the payment would be divided evenly between his father, William, and his “friend, Mrs. Ellen Brogen”.

Pte. William Denby

Image by kind permission of Andrew Parker