Saturday 30th March 1918

Billetted in huts at Granezza

It was around this time that news was received that a sum of 300 Francs had been presented by Madame Coquet in commemoration of the retaking by the Battalion of the village of Veldhoek in September 1917; the amount was to be expended in the purchase of a Silver Bugle.

The present whereabouts of the Veldhoek Bugle are unknown

Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton

Maj. Edward Borrow DSO (see 15^th February) left the Battalion to undertake a senior officer’s training course.

Maj. Edward Borrow DSO

Pte. John William Mallinson (see 2^nd March) was reported on a charge (details unknown) and would be ordered by Lt.Col. Francis Washington Lethbridge DSO (see 26^th March) to be confined to barracks for seven days.

Pte. Sidney John Rainbow (see 22^nd March) was reported by Cpl. Arthur Lee MM (see 22nd March) for “slackness on guard mounting”; on the orders of Lt. Thomas Beattie (see 3^rd March) he was to be confined to barracks for five days.

Pte. George Green (22749) (see 3^rd March) was discharged from 29^th Stationary Hospital at Cremona and transferred to the Convalescent Depot at Lido d’Albano.

Pte. Bertie Constantine (see 5^th May 1917), serving in France with 2^nd/4^thDWR, was transferred to 1^st/7^thDWR.

Lt. George Stuart Hulburd (see 1^st February) was posted for duty in the orderly room at the Officers Command Depot, Eastbourne.