Wednesday 6th March 1918

Billets at Venegazzu.

Overnight, 6^th/7^th, the Battalion was relieved by the 11^th Sherwood Foresters and marched to the Reserve Brigade area at Biadene; the Transport Lines and Stores remained at Venegazzu.

Pte. Fred Smith (23056) (see 14^th January) was posted from Northern Command Depot at Ripon to 3DWR at North Shields.

The father of L.Cpl. Norman Wright (see 18^th September 1917), who had been reported wounded and missing since September 1917, forwarded three “soldiers letters” to the War Office; the content of the letters is unknown but presumably related to the circumstances surrounding L.Cpl. Wright’s wounding.

A payment of £12 18s. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. John Wesley Amos (see 20^th September 1917), who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; the payment would be divided equally between his brother, Harold J. Amos and his married sister, Mrs. Jane Chirwell Rhys Davis.

A payment of £1 10s. 4d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Walter Mallory (see 20^th September 1917), who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Alice.

A payment of £6 1s. 8d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Thomas Saunders (see 28^th September 1917), who had been killed in action on 28^th September 1917; the payment would go to his mother, Elizabeth.

A payment of £1 16s. 2d. was authorised, being the amount due in pay and allowances to the late Pte. Ernest Smith (25187) (see 20^th September 1917), who had been killed in action on 20^th September 1917; the payment would go to his widow, Marian.