Wednesday 13th February 1918

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

Another fine day.

Pte. Andrew Davidson (see 21^st January) re-joined the Battalion.


L.Cpl. George Holmes (10794) (see 13^th January), serving in France 8DWR, was transferred to 9DWR; a week later having been found guilty on a charge (details unknown) he would be deprived of his Lance Corporal’s stripe and reduced to Private.

Pte. Eber Casson Sykes (see 14^th May 1917), serving in France with 54^th Company, Labour Corps was transferred to 298^th Reserve Labour Company, also in France.

Pte. George Edward Chapman (see 8^th September 1917), who was back in England after serving just one week with 10DWR in June 1916 before suffering shellshock, was posted from 517^th (Home Service) Labour Company, Labour Corps to 3DWR at North Shields.

At home in Wheatley, Halifax, the infant son of L.Cpl. Fred Wilson Fawcett (see 16^th January) died; Stephen Fawcett was 19 days old and his cause of death was stated as being ‘convulsions’.

Pte. Oswald Bolton (see 5^th July 1916) was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service having had his right arm amputated as a result of wounds suffered in July 1916; he was awarded an Army pension of 28s. per week for life.

A payment of £2 17s. 6d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Luther Taylor (see 25^th May 1917), who had been killed in action on 25^th May 1917; the payment would go to his executors, his mother, Alice.

A payment of £1 5s. 11d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Walter Kenyon Whitehead (see 20^th September 1917) who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his executors, his father William and his married sister, Alice Arguile.