Tuesday 26th March 1918

Billets at Dueville

Pte. Joseph Wilkinson (see 18^th June 1917) was reported by Sgt. Ellis Rigby (see 7th March) as having been “absent from 10am parade”; on the orders of Capt. Dick Bolton MC (see 23^rd March) he would be confined to barracks for seven days.

Pte. Reginald Dayson (see 21^st March), who had been reported as having been drunk five days previously, was again reported for the same offence. On this occasion the report was made by CQMS Hubert Charles Hoyle (see 21^st January), Sgt. Middleton Busfield (see 30^th November 1917) and Cpl. Percival John Munn (see 29^th October 1917) and, on the orders of Lt.Col. Francis Washington Lethbridge DSO (see 23^rd March), Dayson would be sentenced to a further 28 days’ Field Punishment no.1, to run concurrently with the sentence he was already under as a result of the earlier offence.

Pte. Leonard Briggs (see 13^th March) was posted back to Italy from ‘B’ Infantry Base Depot at Arques; he would join XIV Corps Reinforcement Camp at Arquata Scrivia.

Pte. William Henry Gray (see 28^th January) was initially reported missing but later confirmed as having been killed in action while serving in France with 2^nd/7^th DWR. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.

Pte. Gilbert Bell (see 19^th May 1917), now serving in France with 9DWR, was admitted via 51^st Field Ambulance to 3^rd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station suffering from myalgia; the details of his treatment are unknown.

2Lt. John Robert Dickinson (see 15^th February), serving with 3DWR at North Shields, following a period of hospital treatment as a result of gas poisoning, was promoted Lieutenant. 

Cpl. George Wallace Fricker (see 5^th October 1917) having completed a course of officer training, was discharged to a commission as Temporary Second Lieutenant and would be posted to 3DWR at North Shields, reporting for duty on 5^th April.

Sgt. Arthur Kilburn Robinson (see 15^th August 1917), having completed a course of officer training, was discharged to a commission as Temporary Second Lieutenant with the York and Lancaster Regiment. When he had left 10DWR and returned to England has not been established.

Cpl. Cecil Stanley Pitblado (see 14^th December 1917), serving in England with 4DWR, was temporarily transferred to the Military Provost Staff Corps.

The Army Chaplains Department wrote to the former Battalion Chaplain, Rev. Wilfred Leveson Henderson MC (see 14^th February), who had been severely wounded in the attack on the Messines Ridge on 7^th June, to inform him that he had been selected for duty at Boyton Camp, Codford, Wiltshire, and was to report for duty on 28^th March.

A payment of £6 18s. 4d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late A/Sgt. James Collings (see 20^th September 1917), who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Mary Ann.  


A pension award was made in the case of the late Pte. William Stanley Davies (see 5^th February 1918), who had died of wounds in September 1917; his mother, Elizabeth, was awarded 5s. per week, later increased (in October) to 9s. per week.

Pte. William Stanley Davies