Tuesday 5th March 1918

Billets at Venegazzu.

There was some improvement in the weather, although heavy thunderstorms continued.

2Lt. Arthur Neill (see 29^th September 1917) was promoted Lieutenant.

L.Cpl. George Mitchell (see 10^th November 1917), serving with L Signals Battalion, Royal Engineers, was reprimanded for “neglect of duty while in charge of a working party”.

L.Cpl. Clarence Best (see 26^th September 1917), who had been in England since having been severely wounded on 20^th September 1917, appeared before an Army Medical Board which recommended that he be discharged from the army as no longer physically fit for service. He had suffered wounds to his right thigh and “a lesion to the sciatic nerve”.

A payment of £1 5s. 8d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Frank Suckling (see 20^th September), who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Phoebe.