Wednesday 9th January 1918

Billets at Biadene

Pte. Walter William Scott (see 3^rd November 1917) was posted back to England; he was suffering from bronchitis, but the details of his medical treatment are unknown.

Pte. Harold Walker Bray (see 21^st November 1917), who had been wounded in November 1917 while serving with 2/6^thDWR, was posted back to England.

Sgt. Wilson Allinson (see 2^nd December 1917), L.Sgt. Albert Earnshaw (see 26^th November 1917), L.Cpl. Frank Mallinson MM (see 30^th November 1917) and Ptes. Joseph Leonard Holmes (see 20^th November 1917), Henry Charles Lindsay (see 11^th June 1917) and Ernest Smith (29167) (see 13^th September 1917) were posted from Northern Command Depot at Ripon to 3DWR at North Shields.

Pte. Harry Bradley (see 22^nd November 1916), who had been wounded on 4^th October 1916, appeared before an Army Medical Board assembled at the British Red Cross Hospital at Bellahouston; the Board recommended that he be discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service.

A payment of £1 14s. 1d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. John (Jack) Williams (see 20^th September 1917), who had died of wounds on 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Elizabeth. She would also receive a parcel of his personal effects comprising of, “disc, letters, photos, wallet, testament, cigarette case, silver wristlet watch and protector, diary, cap badge, 2 stamps (½d.), 1d. stamp, cotton bag”.