Monday 11th March 1918

Billets at Biadene.

On another hot day, the Battalion was relieved by a Battalion of A Brigade, 51^st Italian Division. Starting out at 9.12am the Battalion marched ten miles south-west, via Caselle, Casoni and Valla to Castelfranco Veneto. 

Pte. James Hillhouse (see 20^th January) was reported by Sgt. Joseph Maddison MM (see 7^th March) for “leaving the ranks whilst on the line of march without permission”; on the orders of Capt. Dick Bolton MC (see 9^th March) he would confined to barracks for four days.

Pte. Harry Pullin (see 5^th October 1917) was reported by Sgt. James Robinson (see 7th March) for “falling out on the line of march without permission”; on the orders of 2Lt. John William Pontefract (see 23^rd December 1917) he would be confined to barracks for five days.

Sgt. John William Wardman MM (see 31st January) and Ptes. Alfred Fishlock (see 6th December 1917) and Stanley Hirst (see 13^th December 1916) departed on two weeks’ leave to England.

Sgt. John William Wardman MM

Image by kind permission of Paul Bishop

Pte. Erwin Wilkinson (see 18^th August 1917) was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance and 24^th Casualty Clearing Station to 11^th General Hospital at Genoa; he was suffering from “P.U.O.” (pyrexia, or high temperature, of unknown origin).

Capt. Gilbert Tunstill (see 7^th January) appeared before a further Army Medical Board assembled at Tynemouth. The Board found, “condition unchanged … the foot swells at times and he complains of pain in it”. He was again declared fit for light duty at home and instructed to re-join 3DWR; he would re-examined in a further month.

Pte. Charles Leslie Gooch (see 15^th September 1917) was discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service due to wounds. In the absence of his service record it has not been possible to establish when he had been wounded.