Monday 25th March 1918

Billets at Marola

The final reflections on the stay of the Brigade in the area were that, “During the whole of this period the weather was fine and sunny. The Italian inhabitants were most kind and pleasant”.

Starting out at 10am on another hot day the Battalion marched nine miles north, via Quinto Vicentino to Dueville; the journey on dusty roads meant that, “we came to look like a band of millers”. This was described as “A long hot march. The column halted for 1½ hours about midday. The troops marched well and in spite of the great heat few fell out. Full kit and one blanket carried”.

Pte. Cyril Hollingsworth (see 5^th July 1917) was posted back to England; the reason for his departure is unknown.

Pte. John Edward Scott (see 22^nd December 1917) was killed in action while serving with 2^nd/7^th DWR; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.

L.Cpl. Arthur Lund (see 28^th February), who had been wounded a month previously while serving in France with 1^st/4^th DWR, was evacuated to England.


Cpl. John Henry Crawshaw (see 16^th December 1917), was discharged from hospital (location unknown) and posted to the Regimental Depot at Halifax.

Catherine Wood, widow of the late Pte. Thomas Wood (see 24^th December 1917), who had been killed in action in June 1917, re-married, to Stoker Douglas Godfrey Ashby, of HMS Invincible.

A payment of £2 7s. 1d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Edwin Charles Church (see 28^th December 1917), who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Florence. She would also receive a parcel of her late husband’s personal effects, comprising of, “disc, wallet, photos, cards”.

A second payment, of £1, was authorised on the account of the late Pte. John Driver (see 28^th January), who had been killed in action on 18^th October 1917; the payment, like the first one, would go to his widow, Mabel.

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A payment of £15 1s. 5d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. John Lever (see 5^th January), who had died of wounds in January while serving with 9DWR; the payment would go to his widow, Sarah Elizabeth.

A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. Percival James (Percy) Pemberton (see 14^th March 1918), who had been killed in action in September 1917; his widow, Alice, was awarded £1 2s. 11d. per week.