Tuesday 29th January 1918

Front line trenches on the Montello, between roads 14 and 19.

Brig. Genl. Lambert (see 25^th January) returned from leave and resumed command of 69^th Brigade.

69^th Brigade football team played against 70^th Brigade; the game ended 0-0.


Pte. Thomas George Coates (see 8^th January), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was reported as having been ‘absent from tattoo until reporting himself to NCO of guard at 10.15pm’; he was ordered to be confined to barracks for three days.

Pte. Herbert Farrand Hogley (see 18^th January) reported to Northern Command Depot at Ripon and was immediately admitted to hospital for further treatment to the injuries to his right arm.

2Lt. Maurice Tribe MC (see 2^nd May 1917), who had been severely wounded at le Sars in October 1916, losing an eye, wrote to request payment for “two artificial eyes purchased by me and necessitated by gun shot wounds received in action on October 5^th 1916”. The sum involved was £4 4s.

Following a recent enquiry to the Infantry Records Office, Thomas Irvin Wood MM (see 8^th January) received, by post, the Military Medal which he had been awarded for his conduct at Veldhoek on 20^th September 1917.

Pte. Lewis Larkins (see 2^nd January), who had been in England since having been wounded on 20^th September 1917, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to wounds. He was awarded a pension of 27s. 6d. per week for four weeks, thereafter reducing to 8s. 3d. per week and to be reviewed in one years’ time.

A payment of £4 18s. 3d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Cpl. George Herbert Moody (see 21^st September 1917), who had been killed in action on 21^st September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Annie.

A payment of £6 7s. 1d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Cpl. Joseph Rawnsley (see 20^th September 1917), who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Sarah.

A further payment was made in respect of the pay and allowances due to the late Pte. John Smith (13382) (see 25^th August 1917); payments of £1 11s. 7d. to each of his five sisters had been made in August 1917. The final share had been due to his brother, Thomas, but was now issued, at the request of Thomas, to his sister, Emma.