Wednesday 16th January 1918

Billets at Biadene

Training continued

L.Cpl. James Allen (see 16^th December 1917) began to be paid according to his rank, having previously held it on an unpaid basis.

L.Cpl. Fred Wilson Fawcett (see 31^st December 1917) finally re-joined the Battalion, 16 days after being discharged from 62^nd General Hospital at Marseilles following treatment for boils.

The sentence of two years’ imprisonment with hard labour which had been imposed on Pte. Ernest Wilson (11751) (see 2^nd January) was suspended on the orders of GOC, British Forces in Italy.

Pte. James Duncan Foster (see 27^th May 1917), serving with 2DWR, was admitted to hospital in France, suffering from inflammation to both legs.

Pte. Archibald Louis Norris (see 24^th June 1917), serving with 360^th Labour Company, appeared before an Army Medical Board at Ripon; the Board recommended that he be discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to bronchitis.

Howard Thurston Hodgkinson (see 11^th March), who had relinquished his commission as Second Lieutenant in March 1917, was awarded the Silver War Badge, on grounds of his illness having been caused or aggravated by active service.

A payment of £2 6d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Edward Westle (see 22^nd September 1917), who had died of wounds on 22^nd September; the payment would go to his mother, Elizabeth. She would also receive a parcel of his personal effects, comprising of, “letters, photos, pipe (German), religious books, money belt, razor, shaving brush, wristlet watch (broken), comb, 2 pencils, clasp knife, wallet, ring, cards”.