Thursday 7th February 1918

In billets between Crocetta and Biadene.

The recent good weather continued.

L.Cpl. Arthur Lund (see 24^th November 1917), who had been in England since having been wounded in July and was serving with 3DWR at North Shields, was posted to France and would join 1^st/4^th DWR.

L.Cpl. William Stowell (see 9^th October 1917), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, began to be paid according to his rank, having previously held the appointment unpaid.

Pte. Michael Hopkins MM (see 17^th December 1917), who had been in England since having been wounded on 20^th September 1917, was posted from Northern Command Depot at Ripon to 3DWR at North Shields.

Pte. James Wilson (see 11^th December 1917), serving in East Africa as a lorry driver with the Motor Transport Section of the ASC, was transferred by hospital ship from hospital in Ndanda (in modern day Tanzania) to Dar es Salam; he was suffering from malaria.

Pte. John William Midgley (see 31^st January), who had been in hospital in Scotland having suffered wounds to his head and both legs in May 1917, appeared before an Army Medical Board in Aberdeen which recommended that he be discharged from the army as no longer physically fit for service. It was also confirmed, following recent enquiries, that “Private Midgley will be unfit to resume his former employment as he states that he had some heavy lifts, but he is quite agreeable and fit to undertake light work with Messrs. Hill, France and Gardner”.

A payment of £1 19s. 5d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Joseph Bernstein (see 17^th December 1917), who had been killed in action on 7^th June 1917; the payment would go to his father, Aaron.