Saturday 16th February 1918

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

Overnight 16^th/17^th the Battalion was relieved by the 10^th Battalion, Royal West Kents Regt, from 123^rd Brigade and marched to billets at Biadene.

Whilst returning from a working party to the front line Pte. Thomas Henry Cox (25806) (see 29^th October 1917) suffered a sprained ankle as a result of having, “accidentally stepped into a hole on the roadway”. He would spend some time (details unknown) at 23^rd Division Rest Station before re-joining the Battalion. 

The Military Medal due to Pte. Jesse Barker MM (see 31^st January), was issued, at the request of the Lord Mayor of Bradford, in order that it could be presented to Pte. Barker before he returned to Italy from leave.

Pte. Arthur Cerenza King (see 15^th December 1917) was transferred from 14^th Convalescent Depot at Trouville to ‘B’ Infantry Base Depot at Etaples.

Pte. Joseph Livesey (see 30^th October 1917), who had been in hospital in France for more than three months after suffering from a severe case of trench foot, was discharged from hospital and posted to ‘B’ Infantry Base Depot at Etaples.

Pte. William Postill Taylor (see 11^th December 1917), serving in France with 2DWR, was discharged from hospital and re-joined his Battalion.

Pte. Spencer Buckley (see 21^st December 1917), who had been serving with the Royal Engineers, was transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and would be employed in England as an air mechanic.


Cpl. John Hannon (see 6^th October 1916) was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service on account of wounds (the date of his having been wounded has not been established); he was assessed as having suffered a 60% disability as a result of head wounds and neurasthenia and was awarded the Silver War Badge and an Army pension of £1 6s. per week.

A payment of £6 11s. 11d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Herbert Briggs (see 17^th October 1917), who had been killed in action on 17^th October 1917; the payment would go to his father, Robert.

A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. George Waterworth (see 19^th November 1917), who had been killed in action in June 1917; his mother, Sarah, was awarded 15s. per week, in regard to George and his brother, Richard James, who had also been killed in action.