Monday 4th March 1918

Billets at Venegazzu.

A fourth consecutive day of heavy rain.

Sgt. William Walker Rossall MM (see 25^th November 1917), L.Cpl. Percy Simpson (see 8^th November 1916) and Pte. Maurice Paignton (see 29^th October 1917) departed for England on two weeks’ leave.

Pte. Joseph Livesey (see 16^th February), who had missed the departure to Italy in November 1917 because he had been in hospital having suffered a severe case of trench foot, was posted from ‘B’ Infantry Base Depot at Etaples to XIV Corps Reinforcement Camp at Arquata Scrivia.

Pte. Myers Atkinson (see 11^th February), who had been in the UK since being wounded in September 1917, and had had his left leg amputated below the knee, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service. He was awarded a life pension; he would receive 27s. 6d. for nine weeks, reducing thereafter to 13s. 9d. per week. 

Pte. Thomas Bownass (see 11^th February), who had been in the UK since March 1917 suffering from paresis (weakness or partial paralysis) of the right hand, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit for service. He was awarded a pension of 27s. 6d. for four weeks, reducing thereafter to 16s. per week and to be reviewed after one year.

A payment of £2 7s. 3d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Amos Oddy (see 20^th September), who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his father, Simeon.