Saturday 2nd March 1918

Billets at Venegazzu.

A day of torrential rain.

Pte. William Masters (see 31^st January) was reported as ‘drunk on active service’; he was reported by 2Lt. Keith Sagar Bain (see 9^th October 1917) and L.Cpl. Frederick James Lynch (see 29^th October 1917). On the orders of Lt.Col. Francis Washington Lethbridge DSO (see 25^th February) he would undergo seven days’ Field Punishment no.2.

Pte. John William Mallinson (see 6^th January) was reported by Sgt. James Henry Howarth (see 30^th November 1917) for losing part of his kit by neglect; on the orders of Lt.Col. Francis Washington Lethbridge DSO (see above) he was to pay for the lost item.

The Mayor of Keighley, Mr. F.W.L. Butterfield, wrote to the Infantry Record Office in York requesting their assistance in arranging the presentation of the Military Medal which was due to L.Cpl. Cain Rothera MM (see 18^th February), who was currently home on leave. He was seeking to arrange a presentation of the medal to be held at Keighley War Hospital within the next week as Rothera was due to return to Italy on 9^th March. In response, the Infantry Record Office would indeed make urgent arrangements for the despatch of the medal.

A payment of £2 5s. 6d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Archibald Kean (see 20^th September 1917), who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Annie.