Wednesday 20th February 1918

Billets at Valla

The Battalion was occupied in general training. Parties of officers, NCO's and men went a few miles north by motor lorries to the hills in the vicinity of Asolo for instruction in hill fighting.

Pte. Herbert Rushworth (see 26^th September), who had been in England since having suffered severe wounds to his left arm on 20^th September 1917, appeared before an Army Medical Board assembled at the University War Hospital, Southampton. The Board recommended that he be discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service.

2Lt. Godfrey Isaacs (see 22^nd January) formally relinquished his commission on grounds of ill health, having been treated for the symptoms of neurasthenia for the previous eight months.

A payment of £1 16s. 10d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Cpl. Albert Harold Hanson (see 20^th September 1917), who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his father, Frederick.

A payment of £2 5d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. George Stinson (see 20^th September 1917) who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Betsy.