Friday 1st March 1918

Front line trenches on the Montello, between roads 11 and 14.

Overnight 1st/2^nd the Battalion was relieved by the 11WYR and marched, via roads 10, 12 and 14 (the incoming Battalion used roads 11 and 13) to billets at Venegazzu. The relief was completed in heavy rain, with torrential downpours which would soon put the Piave into full flood.

Battalion 2IC, Capt. William Norman Town (see 2^nd December 1917), was promoted Temporary Major.

Pte. Michael Langley (see 9^th February), who, three weeks previously, had been reported as having overstayed his leave in England, re-joined the Battalion; he was ordered to undergo 28 days’ Field Punishment no.2 and to forfeit 28 days’ pay. 

L.Cpl. James Moran (see 26^th January), serving in France with 4^th Labour Company, Labour Corps, was posted back to the UK to Scottish Command Labour Centre prior to taking up munitions work, reverting to the rank of Private.

Lt. Robert Stewart Skinner Ingram (see 22^nd February 1917), who had been one of the original officers of Tunstill’s Company, but was now serving with the RFC, was promoted Captain.

Maj. Charles Bathurst MC (see 31^st October 1917), who had been in England since having been taken ill four months previously, relinquished his temporary appointment as Major and was appointed Temporary Captain whilst commanding a company of an Officer Cadet Battalion.

Pte. Trayton George Harper (see 26^th September 1917), who had been in England since having been wounded on 20^th September 1917, was posted to 3DWR at North Shields.

Pte. Daniel Brennan (see 8^th February), who had been in England since having been wounded in October 1916, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service. He was awarded a penion of 27s. 6d. per week, to be reviewed in six months.


A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Joe Anderson (see 6^th December 1917), who had died of wounds in September 1917; his widow, Edith, was awarded 18s. 9d. per week for herself and their son, Frank.