Thursday 21st February 1918

Billets at Valla

Training continued and parties of officers, NCO's and men again went a few miles north by motor lorries to the hills in the vicinity of Asolo for instruction in hill fighting.

Pte. Willie Holmes (see 15^th January) was reported for “having an untidy kit”; on the orders of Capt. John Edward Lennard Payne MC (see 7^th January) he was to be confined to barracks for three days.

L.Cpl. Fred Atkinson (see 12^th August 1917) relinquished his appointment as Lance Corporal, ‘at his own request’ and reverted to Private.

A payment of £1 18s. 3d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. James Herbert Armstrong (see 18^th October 1917) who had been killed in action on 18^th October 1917; the payment would go to his mother and father, Mary and James, as joint legatees.

A payment of £2 3s. 9d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. William James Horne (see 18^th October 1917) who had been killed in action on 18^th October 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Agnes.

A payment of £3 17s. 6d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Thomas Manuell (see 20^th September 1917) who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his father, Joe. He would also receive a parcel of his son’s personal effects, comprising of, “wallet, letter, eyeglasses, disc”.

A payment of £5 16s. 2d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Frederick Miller (see 7^th June 1917) who had been killed in action on 7^th June 1917; the payment would go to his father, Hermann.

James Lyon, father of the late 2Lt. Donald Halliday Lyon (see 22^nd December 1917) who had been killed in action on 20^th September, made his formal declaration stating that his son had left no known will and that he was not intending to apply for letters of administration for his son’s estate.